exclude

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   prevent from being included or considered or accepted

   The bad results were excluded from the report

2. 2
   verb

   put out or expel from a place

   The unruly student was excluded from the game

3. 3
   verb

   lack or fail to include

   The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages

4. 4
   verb

   To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.

   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 [...].

5. 5
   verb

   To expel; to put out.

   to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs

6. 6
   verb

   To omit from consideration.

   Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.

7. 7
   verb

   prevent from entering

8. 8
   verb

   To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).