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ex·clude

 (ĭk-sklo͞od′)
tr.v. ex·clud·ed, ex·clud·ing, ex·cludes
1. To prevent from entering; keep out; bar: a jar sealed to exclude outside air; an immigration policy that excludes undesirables.
2. To prevent from being included, considered, or accepted; reject: The court excluded the improperly obtained evidence.
3. To put out; expel.

[Middle English excluden, from Latin exclūdere : ex-, ex- + claudere, to shut.]

ex·clud′a·bil′i·ty n.
ex·clud′a·ble, ex·clud′i·ble adj. & n.
ex·clud′er n.
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exclude

(ɪkˈskluːd)
vb (tr)
1. to keep out; prevent from entering
2. to reject or not consider; leave out
3. to expel forcibly; eject
4. (Education) to debar from school, either temporarily or permanently, as a form of punishment
[C14: from Latin exclūdere, from claudere to shut]
exˈcludable, exˈcludible adj
exˈcluder n
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ex•clude

(ɪkˈsklud)

v.t. -clud•ed, -clud•ing.
1. to shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of.
2. to shut out from consideration, privilege, etc.
3. to expel and keep out.
[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin exclūdere to shut out, cut off]
ex•clud′er, n.
ex•clu•so•ry (ɪkˈsklu sə ri, -zə ri) adj.
ex•clud′a•ble, ex•clud′i•ble, adj.
ex•clud`a•bil′i•ty, n.
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exclude


Past participle: excluded
Gerund: excluding

Imperative
exclude
exclude
Present
I exclude
you exclude
he/she/it excludes
we exclude
you exclude
they exclude
Preterite
I excluded
you excluded
he/she/it excluded
we excluded
you excluded
they excluded
Present Continuous
I am excluding
you are excluding
he/she/it is excluding
we are excluding
you are excluding
they are excluding
Present Perfect
I have excluded
you have excluded
he/she/it has excluded
we have excluded
you have excluded
they have excluded
Past Continuous
I was excluding
you were excluding
he/she/it was excluding
we were excluding
you were excluding
they were excluding
Past Perfect
I had excluded
you had excluded
he/she/it had excluded
we had excluded
you had excluded
they had excluded
Future
I will exclude
you will exclude
he/she/it will exclude
we will exclude
you will exclude
they will exclude
Future Perfect
I will have excluded
you will have excluded
he/she/it will have excluded
we will have excluded
you will have excluded
they will have excluded
Future Continuous
I will be excluding
you will be excluding
he/she/it will be excluding
we will be excluding
you will be excluding
they will be excluding
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been excluding
you have been excluding
he/she/it has been excluding
we have been excluding
you have been excluding
they have been excluding
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been excluding
you will have been excluding
he/she/it will have been excluding
we will have been excluding
you will have been excluding
they will have been excluding
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been excluding
you had been excluding
he/she/it had been excluding
we had been excluding
you had been excluding
they had been excluding
Conditional
I would exclude
you would exclude
he/she/it would exclude
we would exclude
you would exclude
they would exclude
Past Conditional
I would have excluded
you would have excluded
he/she/it would have excluded
we would have excluded
you would have excluded
they would have excluded
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.exclude - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
elide - leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
include - consider as part of something; "I include you in the list of culprits"
2.exclude - prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"
excommunicate, unchurch, curse - exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
lock out - prevent employees from working during a strike
prevent, keep - stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles"
ostracise, ostracize - avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"
let in, admit, include - allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"
3.exclude - lack or fail to include; "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages"
lack, miss - be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
include - have as a part, be made up out of; "The list includes the names of many famous writers"
4.exclude - prevent from enteringexclude - prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club"
nix, prohibit, proscribe, disallow, forbid, interdict, veto - command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans"
5.exclude - put out or expel from a placeexclude - put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game"
evict, force out - expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"
evict - expel or eject without recourse to legal process; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m."
show the door - ask to leave; "I was shown the door when I asked for a raise"
bounce - eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club"
exorcise, exorcize - expel through adjuration or prayers; "exorcise evil spirits"
expel, kick out, throw out - force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country"
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exclude

verb
1. keep out, bar, ban, veto, refuse, forbid, boycott, embargo, prohibit, disallow, shut out, proscribe, black, refuse to admit, ostracize, debar, blackball, interdict, prevent from entering The Academy excluded women from its classes.
keep out allow, receive, accept, admit, welcome, permit, let in
2. omit, reject, eliminate, rule out, miss out, leave out, preclude, repudiate Vegetarians exclude meat products from their diet.
omit include, accept, count
3. eliminate, reject, ignore, rule out, except, leave out, set aside, omit, pass over, not count, repudiate, count out We can't exclude the possibility of suicide.
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exclude

verb
To keep from being admitted, included, or considered:
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Translations
يَسْتَثْنييُخْرِجيَسْتَبْعِد، يُقْصي
vyloučit
udelukkeeksludereholde ude
ekskludi
sulkea pois
לא להכליל
isključiti
figyelmen kívül hagykirekeszt
byrgja útiútiloka
除外する
제외하다
išleistiišskirtineįleidimaspašalinti
izslēgtnepielaist
izključiti
exkluderautelämnautesluta
แยกออกไป
dahil etmemekdışında tutmakdüşünmemekhariç tutmakhesaba katmamak
loại trừ

exclude

[ɪksˈkluːd] VT
1. (= keep out) → excluir
2. (= discount) [+ mistakes] → exceptuar; [+ possibility of error] → evitar
3. (Scol) [+ pupil] → expulsar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

exclude

[ɪkˈskluːd] vt
[+ person] → exclure
to exclude sb from sth [+ place, activity] → exclure qn de qch
(= expel) [+ pupil] → renvoyer, exclure temporairement
[+ reference] → supprimer
(= rule out) [+ possibility] → exclure
to exclude sth from sth → exclure qch de qch
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

exclude

vtausschließen; to exclude somebody from the team/an occupationjdn aus der Mannschaft/von einer Beschäftigung ausschließen; to exclude a child from schoolein Kind vom Schulunterricht ausschließen; to exclude somebody from doing somethingjdn davon ausschließen, etw zu tun; if we don’t exclude the possibility that …wenn wir die Möglichkeit nicht ausschließen, dass …; the price excludes VAT (Brit) → der Preis versteht sich ausschließlich Mehrwertsteuer; £200 excluding VAT (Brit) → £ 200 ohne Mehrwertsteuer; the meal costs £15 excluding winedas Essen kostet £ 15 ohne Wein; everything excluding the housealles außer or ausgenommen das Haus
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

exclude

[ɪksˈkluːd] vt (gen) → escludere; (possibility) → scartare
I'm excluded from taking part → non ho il diritto di partecipare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

exclude

(ikˈskluːd) verb
1. to prevent (someone) from sharing or taking part in something. They excluded her from the meeting.
2. to shut out; to keep out. Fill the bottle to the top so as to exclude all air.
3. to leave out of consideration. We cannot exclude the possibility that he was lying.
exˈclusion (-ʒən) noun
exˈcluding preposition
not counting; without including. The club's expenses, excluding the cost of stationery, amounted to $251.
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exclude

يَسْتَثْني vyloučit udelukke ausschließen αποκλείω excluir sulkea pois exclure isključiti escludere 除外する 제외하다 uitsluiten utestenge wyłączyć excluir исключать utesluta แยกออกไป dışında tutmak loại trừ 排除
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If they provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top, as certainly as cream rises in a bowl of milk: and if the people should destroy class after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
What if the false gentleman contrives so to address his companion as civilly to exclude all others from his discourse, and also to make them feel excluded? Real service will not lose its nobleness.
The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their names enrolled in its Golden Book, and whom it has excluded from its coveted honors and privileges.
The outlying villages, they say, are by them called {kappa omega mu alpha iota}, by the Athenians {delta eta mu iota}: and they assume that Comedians were so named not from {kappa omega mu 'alpha zeta epsilon iota nu}, 'to revel,' but because they wandered from village to village (kappa alpha tau alpha / kappa omega mu alpha sigma), being excluded contemptuously from the city.
(1) They relate that the creature was sent by the gods to punish the descendants of Cadmus, and that the Thebans therefore excluded those of the house of Cadmus from kingship.
The streak of daylight being now excluded from the room, Miss Dunross threw back her veil, and took the harp on her knee; seating herself, I observed, with her face turned away from the fire.
Every profession, and every trade, required length of time, and what was worse, money; for matters are so constituted, that "nothing out of nothing" is not a truer maxim in physics than in politics; and every man who is greatly destitute of money, is on that account entirely excluded from all means of acquiring it.
Stephen's passionate words made the vision of such a life more fully present to her than it had ever been before; and the vision for the time excluded all realities,--all except the returning sun-gleams which broke out on the waters as the evening approached, and mingled with the visionary sunlight of promised happiness; all except the hand that pressed hers, and the voice that spoke to her, and the eyes that looked at her with grave, unspeakable love.
Resentment could not have been more plainly spoken than in a civility to her father, from which she was so pointedly excluded. She had not even a share in his opening compliments.Her name was not mentioned; and there was so striking a change in all this, and such an illjudged solemnity of leavetaking in his graceful acknowledgments, as she thought, at first, could not escape her father's suspicion.
The increase in the number of ballots excluded from the count was a ubiquitous phenomenon observed in all provinces and Islamabad Capital Territory with nearly 11.7% overall increase.
More than 20,000 pupils were excluded from schools in Wales in one academic year, according to Welsh Assembly Government figures published yesterday.
The pupils were excluded on a fixed-term basis - which could mean anything from a day to several weeks.