exclude
/ɪksˈkluːd/ verb
Forms excludes excluding excluded
- verb (transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
- verb (transitive) To expel; to put out.
- verb (transitive) To omit from consideration. “Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.”
- verb (transitive, law) To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
- verb (transitive, medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
Synonyms
debar eject omit forbar turn away throw out turf out except leave out leave off take out keep out shut out shut bar chuck out boot out turn out
Antonyms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; --the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
- verb To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs. Excluded middle. (logic) The name given to the third of the "three logical axioms," so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: "Everything is either A or Not-A." no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See Principle of contradiction, under Contradiction.
Etymology [L. excludere, exclusum; ex out + claudere to shut. See Close.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “exclude”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details