exclude

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪksˈkluːd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: ex‧clude
  • Rhymes: -uːd

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
    • 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
      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 [...].
    • 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents‎[1]:
      [David] Brog spoke movingly of his immigrant grandfather as a triumph of the assimilationist model—a Romanian Jew who emigrated to America, learned English, and became a good patriotic American—but failed to mention that the 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.
  2. (transitive) To expel; to put out.
    to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
  3. (transitive) To omit from consideration.
    Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
  4. (transitive, law) To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
  5. (transitive, medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

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Antonyms

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Translations

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) exclūde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of exclūdō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excludere.

Pronunciation

Verb

a exclude (third-person singular present exclude, past participle exclus) 3rd conj.

  1. to exclude
    Antonym: include

Conjugation

    conjugation of exclude (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
infinitive a exclude
gerund excluzând
past participle exclus
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present exclud excluzi exclude excludem excludeți exclud
imperfect excludeam excludeai excludea excludeam excludeați excludeau
simple perfect exclusei excluseși excluse excluserăm excluserăți excluseră
pluperfect exclusesem excluseseși exclusese excluseserăm excluseserăți excluseseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să exclud să excluzi să excludă să excludem să excludeți să excludă
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative exclude excludeți
negative nu exclude nu excludeți

Derived terms

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