exclude

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From Latin excludere, from prefix ex- (out), + variant form of verb claudere (close).

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Infinitive
to exclude

Third person singular
excludes

Simple past
excluded

Past participle
excluded

Present participle
excluding

to exclude (third-person singular simple present excludes, present participle excluding, simple past and past participle excluded)

  1. To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
  2. To expel; to put out.
  3. (law, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
  4. (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

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