Thesaurus: exclude

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1. v. t. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
2. v. t. To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
3. v. prevent from being included or considered or accepted
4. v. prevent from entering; shut out
5. v. lack or fail to include
6. v. prevent from entering; keep out
7. v. put out or expel from a place
8. 1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. And none but such, from mercy I exclude. Milton. 2. To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs. Excluded middle. (logic) The name given to the third of the "three logical axioms," so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: "Everything is either A or Not-A." no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See Principle of contradiction, under Contradiction.
9. v:100 v. prevent from being included or considered or accepted v. prevent from entering; shut out v. lack or fail to include