exclude

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪksˈkluːd/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧clude
• Rhymes: -uːd

exclude (third-person singular simple present excludes, present participle excluding, simple past and past participle excluded)

1. (transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
   • 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:

     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 [...].

   • 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents‎:

     [David] Brog spoke movingly of his immigrant grandfather as a triumph of the assimilationist model—a Romanian Jew who emigrated to America, learned English, and became a good patriotic American—but failed to mention that the 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.

2. (transitive) To expel; to put out.

   to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs

3. (transitive) To omit from consideration.

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

4. (transitive, law) To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
5. (transitive, medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

• (bar from entering): debar, forbar, turn away; see also Thesaurus:shut out
• (expel): eject, throw out, turf out; see also Thesaurus:kick out
• (omit from consideration): omit; see also Thesaurus:omit

• include

exclūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of exclūdō

Borrowed from Latin excludere.

• IPA^(key): /eksˈklude/

a exclude (third-person singular present exclude, past participle exclus) 3rd conj.

1. to exclude

   Antonym: include

• excludere

• exclus
• exclusiv
• excluziune