exclude
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From Latin excludere, from prefix ex- (“‘out’”), + variant form of verb claudere (“‘close’”).
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to exclude (third-person singular simple present excludes, present participle excluding, simple past and past participle excluded)
- To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
- To expel; to put out.
- (law, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
- (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.