Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
2. (transitive) To expel; to put out.
3. (transitive) To omit from consideration.
4. (transitive, law) To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
5. (transitive, medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

Example Sentences

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.

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, […]

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

Word Forms

• excludes
• excluding
• excluded

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When Should You Use Exclude?

Use exclude when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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