exclude

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪksˈkluːd/

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• 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]:

     [T]he 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

   • 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick‎^[2], The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:

     […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]

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.

Synonyms

• (bar from entering): debar, forbar, turn away; see also Thesaurus:shut out
• (expel): eject, throw out, turf out; see also Thesaurus:kick out
• (omit from consideration): omit; see also Thesaurus:omit

Antonyms

• include

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kleh₂w-‎ (0 c, 62 e)

Translations

to bar from entering; keep out

• Bulgarian: изключвам (bg) (izključvam)
• Catalan: excloure (ca)
• Danish: eksludere
• Dutch: uitsluiten (nl), buitensluiten (nl)
• Esperanto: ekskludi
• Finnish: kieltää pääsy, torjua (fi)
• French: exclure (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀποκλείω (apokleíō)

• Hebrew: לא הכליל (lo hikhlíl)
• Hungarian: kirekeszt (hu), kizár (hu)
• Japanese: 除外する (ja) (じょがいする, jogai-suru)
• Latin: exclūdō
• Lithuanian: išskirti, pašalinti (lt)
• Maori: awere
• Norwegian: utelukke, ekskludere
• Polish: wykluczać (pl) impf, wykluczyć (pl) pf, wyłączać (pl) impf, wyłączyć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: excluir (pt)
• Romanian: exclude (ro)
• Russian: исключа́ть (ru) impf (isključátʹ), исключи́ть (ru) pf (isključítʹ)
• Spanish: excluir (es)
• Swedish: utelämna (sv), exkludera (sv)
• Ukrainian: виключа́ти impf (vyključáty), ви́ключити pf (výključyty)

to expel, put out

• Finnish: erottaa (fi)
• Hungarian: kikölt (hu), világra hoz
• Maori: pei, pana, tūwhiti, atiati, whakapako
• Portuguese: expelir (pt)
• Russian: исключа́ть (ru) impf (isključátʹ), исключи́ть (ru) pf (isključítʹ)
• Spanish: excluir (es)
• Swedish: utesluta (sv)

to omit from consideration — see also omit

• Hungarian: kihagy (hu), nem számít (bele)

law: to refuse to accept (evidence) as valid

• Bulgarian: отхвърлям (bg) (othvǎrljam)
• Dutch: uitsluiten (nl)
• Finnish: hylätä (fi)

medicine: to eliminate from diagnostic consideration

• Dutch: uitsluiten (nl)
• Finnish: sulkea pois
• German: ausschließen (de)
• Hungarian: kizár (hu)
• Portuguese: excluir (pt)
• Swedish: utesluta (sv)

Latin

Verb

exclūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of exclūdō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excludere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eksˈklude/

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

• excludere

Related terms

• exclus
• exclusiv
• excluziune