Dictionary

exclude en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɪksˈkluːd/
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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
   • [T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country. 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
   • 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 [...]. 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
2. (transitive) 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, […] 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:
3. (transitive) To omit from consideration.
   • Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
4. (transitive) To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
5. (transitive) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

Forms

Antonyms

include

Deriveds

excludable · excludingly · excluder · unexcluding · excludee · unexclude

Synonyms

debar (bar from entering) · turf out · throw out · forbar · omit (omit from consideration) · turn away · eject (expel)

Translations (58)

grc ἀποκλείω (to bar from entering; keep out) · nl uitsluiten (medicine: to eliminate from diagnostic consideration) · mi tūwhiti (to expel, put out) · nl buitensluiten (to bar from entering; keep out) · pl wykluczać (to bar from entering; keep out) · no ekskludere (to bar from entering; keep out) · ru исключи́ть (to expel, put out) · hu kizár (medicine: to eliminate from diagnostic consideration) · hu világra hoz (to expel, put out) · mr वगळणे (to omit from consideration) · hu kirekeszt (to bar from entering; keep out) · ja 除外する (to bar from entering; keep out) · bg отхвърлям (law: to refuse to accept (evidence) as valid) · fi kieltää pääsy (to bar from entering; keep out) · pl wyłączyć (to bar from entering; keep out) · fi torjua (to bar from entering; keep out) · lt pašalinti (to bar from entering; keep out) · sv utesluta (medicine: to eliminate from diagnostic consideration) · ca excloure (to bar from entering; keep out) · hu kizár (to bar from entering; keep out) · mi whakapako (to expel, put out) · da eksludere (to bar from entering; keep out) · pt expelir (to expel, put out) · mi atiati (to expel, put out) · pt excluir (to bar from entering; keep out) · ru исключа́ть (to bar from entering; keep out) · es excluir (to bar from entering; keep out) · pl wyłączać (to bar from entering; keep out) · es excluir (to expel, put out) · mi pei (to expel, put out) · fi sulkea pois (medicine: to eliminate from diagnostic consideration) · pt excluir (medicine: to eliminate from diagnostic consideration) · fr exclure (to bar from entering; keep out) · bg изключвам (to bar from entering; keep out) · ro exclude (to bar from entering; keep out) · hu nem számít (bele) (to omit from consideration) · he לא הכליל (to bar from entering; keep out) · hu kikölt (to expel, put out) · uk ви́ключити (to bar from entering; keep out) · lt išskirti (to bar from entering; keep out) · nl uitsluiten (law: to refuse to accept (evidence) as valid) · mi pana (to expel, put out) · uk виключа́ти (to bar from entering; keep out) · de ausschließen (medicine: to eliminate from diagnostic consideration) · sv utelämna (to bar from entering; keep out) · ru исключа́ть (to expel, put out) · mi awere (to bar from entering; keep out) · fi erottaa (to expel, put out) · nl uitsluiten (to bar from entering; keep out) · pl wykluczyć (to bar from entering; keep out) · ru исключи́ть (to bar from entering; keep out) · eo ekskludi (to bar from entering; keep out) · no utelukke (to bar from entering; keep out) · hu kihagy (to omit from consideration) · sv exkludera (to bar from entering; keep out) · sv utesluta (to expel, put out) · la exclūdō (to bar from entering; keep out) · fi hylätä (law: to refuse to accept (evidence) as valid)