exclude

[ik-sklood]

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verb (used with object), ex·clud·ed, ex·clud·ing.

to shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of.

to shut out from consideration, privilege, etc.: Employees and their relatives were excluded from participation in the contest.

to expel and keep out; thrust out; eject: He was excluded from the club for infractions of the rules.

Nearby words

Origin of exclude

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin exclūdere to shut out, cut off, equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + -clūdere (combining form of claudere to close)

SYNONYMS FOR exclude

1. bar, prohibit, except, omit, preclude. 3. reject.

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ANTONYMS FOR exclude

1. include.

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Related forms

ex·clud·er, nounex·clu·so·ry

[ik-skloo-suh-ree, -zuh-ree] /ɪkˈsklu sə ri, -zə ri/, adjectivepre·ex·clude, verb (used with object), pre·ex·clud·ed, pre·ex·clud·ing.un·ex·clud·ed, adjective

un·ex·clud·ing, adjective

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Examples from the Web for excludes

It excludes children and families of minority faiths and beliefs and creates a hostile environment for them.
The Louisiana Public School Cramming Christianity Down Students’ Throats|Andrew Cohen|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“It does strike the language that excludes HIV, but you have to look at the rest of the language of the bill,” Hunt said.
Kansas Quarantine Bill Has HIV/AIDS Advocates Up in Arms|David Freedlander|April 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Instead, it excludes and punishes people who seek only to live as conservatives would urge them to live.
David Frum: Why I Signed the Republican Brief Supporting Gay Marriage|David Frum|February 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
His voter base expects him to follow through and demand a government that excludes the ultra-Orthodox parties.
Obama Complicates Netanyahu’s Coalition Talks|J. J. Goldberg|February 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The amended law also excludes political parties in existence less than five years from participating in elections.
Obama, Congo Needs You Now|Annie Rashidi-Mulumba|May 10, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Or scientific study of the Bible itself which excludes from its province the so-called spiritual revelations which it contains?
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899|Various
The note of the President is in its tone sound and friendly, and excludes the possibility of hostilities.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915|Various
The ecphoria of one of them provokes that of its correlative characters and excludes that of the characters of the other.
The Sexual Question|August Forel
One of the restrictions of his gift, however, excludes newspapers, he describing them as "vehicles of disjointed thinking."
America, Volume I (of 6)|Joel Cook
Every occupant is, then, necessarily a possessor or usufructuary,—a function which excludes proprietorship.
What is Property?|P. J. Proudhon

British Dictionary definitions for excludes

exclude

verb (tr)

to keep out; prevent from entering

to reject or not consider; leave out

to expel forcibly; eject

to debar from school, either temporarily or permanently, as a form of punishment

Derived Formsexcludable or excludible, adjectiveexcluder, noun

Word Origin for exclude

C14: from Latin exclūdere, from claudere to shut

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Word Origin and History for excludes

exclude

mid-14c., from Latin excludere "keep out, shut out, hinder," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + claudere "to close, shut" (see close (v.)). Related: Excluded; excluding.