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:

     [T]he 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

   • 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick‎, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:

     […] 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, […]

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