Exclude

Quick meaning: Exclude is a verb meaning (transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.

Meaning

(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To expel; to put out.
2. (transitive) To omit from consideration.
3. (transitive, law) To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
4. (transitive, medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

Example Sentences

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

to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs

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

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 [...].

Word Forms

• excludes
• excluding
• excluded

Synonyms for exclude

Depending on context, synonyms include debar, forbar, eject, throw out, omit, bar.

Antonyms for exclude

Common opposites include include, admit.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include debar, expel, kick out, omit, eject, shut.

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