exclude

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 7.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
2. verb To expel; to put out.

   to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs

3. verb To omit from consideration.

   Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.

4. verb To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
5. verb To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

Similar words

debar keep out leave off shut out expel kick out boot out omit turf out eject

Often followed by

the from all a them any it other those or

Word family

excluded excluder excluders excludes excluding exclusion exclusionary exclusionist exclusions exclusive