Exclude Definition

ĭk-sklo͝od
excluded, excludes, excluding
verb
excluded, excludes, excluding
To refuse to admit, consider, include, etc.; shut out; keep from entering, happening, or being; reject; bar.
Webster's New World
To prevent from being included, considered, or accepted; reject.
The court excluded the improperly obtained evidence.
American Heritage
To put out; force out; expel.
Webster's New World

(medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

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Origin of Exclude

  • Middle English excluden from Latin exclūdere ex- ex- claudere to shut

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin excludere, from prefix ex- (“out”), + variant form of verb claudere (“close”).

    From Wiktionary

Exclude Sentence Examples

  • Exclude every trace of these organisms, and no change occurs.

  • Bismarck attempted to exclude them from it also.

  • When it comes right down to it, the decision to include or exclude is purely subjective.

  • In the course of a long period characterized by a weak central government, it was not difficult to enlarge the rights which the lord thus obtained, to exclude even the king's personal authority from the immunity, and to translate the duties and payments which the tenant had once owed to the state into obligations which he owed to his lord, even finally into incidents of his tenure.

  • The size of an animal should not suffice to exclude it from the number of insects..

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