exclude

Exclude is defined as to keep out or to refuse to admit.

(verb)

An example of exclude is for a group of children to tell another child that he cannot play with them.

See exclude in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb excluded, excluding

to refuse to admit, consider, include, etc.; shut out; keep from entering, happening, or being; reject; bar
to put out; force out; expel

Origin: ME excluden < L excludere < ex-, out + claudere, close

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See exclude in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb ex·clud·ed, ex·clud·ing, ex·cludes

To prevent from entering; keep out; bar: a jar sealed to exclude outside air; an immigration policy that excludes undesirables.
To prevent from being included, considered, or accepted; reject: The court excluded the improperly obtained evidence.
To put out; expel.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English excluden

Origin: , from Latin exclūdere

Origin: : ex-, ex-

Origin: + claudere, to shut

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