exclude

Verb

Meaning

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.

To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

omit eject debar bar shut out keep out leave out except remove shut eliminate reject expel disregard disallow
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Antonyms

include admit pavilion seaport palm sleuth
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Hypernyms

miss nix keep lack prevent eliminate

Hyponyms

curse bounce evict exorcise excommunicate ostracize

Phrases with the word

exclude competitors

Derivatives

excluded excluding

Examples

I consider it absurd that we should permit our senses to sate themselves without hindrance with their own material food, but that we should exclude the mind alone from its own particular activity. Basil of Caesarea

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. Franz Kafka

Love and friendship exclude each other. Jean de La Bruyère

If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. Francis of Assisi

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. Horace Mann

Close letter words and terms

exclosure excludability excludable excluded community excluded minority excluded person