Borrowed fromLatinexclūdō, from prefixex-(“out”) + variant form of verbclaudō(“close”).
- IPA(key): /ɪksˈkluːd/
- Hyphenation:ex‧clude
- Rhymes:-uːd
exclude (third-person singular simple presentexcludes,present participleexcluding,simple past and past participleexcluded)
- (transitive) Tobar (someone or something) fromentering; tokeepout.
1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, inTrains Illustrated, page766: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 completelyexcluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].
2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, inJewish Currents[1]:[T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically toexclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.
- (transitive) Toexpel; to put out.
- toexclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
1669,John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, inNatural Magick[2], The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page68:[…] 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 dungexcluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it,[…]
- (transitive) Toomit from consideration.
Count from 1 to 30, butexclude the prime numbers.
- (transitive, law) Torefuse toaccept (evidence) asvalid.
- (transitive, medicine) Toeliminate fromdiagnostic consideration.
to bar from entering; keep out
- Bulgarian:изключвам (bg)(izključvam)
- Catalan:excloure (ca)
- Danish:eksludere
- Dutch:uitsluiten (nl),buitensluiten (nl)
- Esperanto:ekskludi
- Finnish:kieltääpääsy,torjua (fi)
- French:exclure (fr)
- Greek:
- Ancient:ἀποκλείω(apokleíō)
- Hebrew:לא הכליל(lo hikhlíl)
- Hungarian:kirekeszt (hu),kizár (hu)
- Japanese:除外する (ja)(じょがいする, jogai-suru)
- Latin:exclūdō
- Lithuanian:išskirti,pašalinti (lt)
- Maori:awere
- Norwegian:utelukke,ekskludere
- Polish:wykluczać (pl) impf,wykluczyć (pl) pf,wyłączać (pl) impf,wyłączyć (pl) pf
- Portuguese:excluir (pt)
- Romanian:exclude (ro)
- Russian:исключа́ть (ru) impf(isključátʹ),исключи́ть (ru) pf(isključítʹ)
- Spanish:excluir (es)
- Swedish:utelämna (sv),exkludera (sv)
- Ukrainian:виключа́ти impf(vyključáty),ви́ключити pf(výključyty)
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to omit from consideration
—see alsoomitlaw: to refuse to accept (evidence) as valid
medicine: to eliminate from diagnostic consideration
exclūde
- second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofexclūdō
Borrowed fromLatinexcludere.
a exclude (third-person singular presentexclude,past participleexclus) 3rd conjugation
- toexclude
- Antonym:include
