exclude
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exclude
- /ɪksˈkluːd/
Rhymes with -uːd
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).
verb excludes · excluding · excluded
- To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out. One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].
- To expel; to put out. to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
- To omit from consideration. Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
- To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
- To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
