'Exclude' definitions:
Definition of 'exclude'
From: WordNet
verb
Prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out] [ant: include]
verb
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" [syn: exclude, keep out, shut out, shut] [ant: admit, include, let in]
verb
Lack or fail to include; "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages" [ant: include]
verb
Prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude]
verb
Definition of 'Exclude'
From: GCIDE
- Exclude \Ex*clude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Excluding.] [L. excludere, exclusum; ex out + claudere to shut. See Close.]
- 1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. [1913 Webster]
- And none but such, from mercy I exclude. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs. [1913 Webster]
- Excluded middle. (logic) The name given to the third of the "three logical axioms," so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: "Everything is either A or Not-A." no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See Principle of contradiction, under Contradiction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exclude'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abjure,
- abscind,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- anticipate,
- avert,
- ban,
- banish,
- bar,
- bar out,
- bate,
- blackball,
- blockade,
- bob,
- boot out,
- bounce,
- brush aside,
- cast,
- cast out,
- categorically reject,
- chuck,
- chuck out,
- clip,
- contemn,
- contradict,
- count out,
- crop,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- debar,
- decline,
- defenestrate,
- deflect,
- deny,
- deport,
- despise,
- deter,
- detrude,
- disallow,
- disapprove,
- disapprove of,
- discard,
- discharge,
- disclaim,
- discount,
- discourage,
- disdain,
- disfavor,
- disfellowship,
- dishearten,
- dismiss,
- disown,
- disregard,
- dissent from,
- dock,
- eject,
- eliminate,
- embargo,
- enjoin,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- estop,
- evict,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude from,
- excommunicate,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- extradite,
- extrude,
- fend,
- fend off,
- forbid,
- foreclose,
- forestall,
- forswear,
- freeze out,
- frown at,
- frown down,
- frown upon,
- fugitate,
- get rid of,
- give the hook,
- grimace at,
- heave out,
- help,
- ignore,
- inhibit,
- interdict,
- isolate,
- jettison,
- junk,
- keep away,
- keep from,
- keep off,
- keep out,
- kick downstairs,
- kick out,
- knock off,
- leave out,
- lock out,
- look askance at,
- look black upon,
- lop,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- not approve,
- not go for,
- not hear of,
- not hold with,
- object,
- object to,
- obtrude,
- obviate,
- omit,
- oppose,
- ostracize,
- oust,
- outlaw,
- pare,
- pass by,
- pass over,
- pass up,
- peel,
- pick out,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- prohibit,
- proscribe,
- protest,
- prune,
- push aside,
- put out,
- rebuff,
- recant,
- refuse,
- refuse to consider,
- reject,
- relegate,
- remove,
- renounce,
- repel,
- repress,
- repudiate,
- repulse,
- root out,
- rule,
- rule out,
- rusticate,
- save,
- say no to,
- scout,
- send away,
- send down,
- send to Coventry,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shear,
- shove away,
- shut out,
- snub,
- spurn,
- stamp out,
- stave off,
- strike off,
- strip,
- strip off,
- suppress,
- taboo,
- take exception to,
- take off,
- take out,
- think ill of,
- think little of,
- throw away,
- throw out,
- throw overboard,
- thrust out,
- thumb down,
- toss out,
- transport,
- truncate,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn out,
- view with disfavor,
- waive,
- ward off,
- wipe out