exclude

UK /ɪksˈkluːd/ US /ɪksˈkluːd/
verb 5

Definitions

verb

1

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 [...].

[T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.

2

To expel; to put out.

to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs

[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]

3

To omit from consideration.

Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.

4

To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.

5

To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

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