exclude

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

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

(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:
  [T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.
(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, 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, […]
(transitive) To omit from consideration.
Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
(transitive, law) To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
(transitive, medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

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

to omit from consideration — see also omit

law: to refuse to accept (evidence) as valid

medicine: to eliminate from diagnostic consideration

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