exclude

exclude
excluder, n.exclusory /ik sklooh"seuh ree, -zeuh ree/, adj.
/ik skloohd"/, v.t., excluded, excluding.
1. to shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of.
2. to shut out from consideration, privilege, etc.: Employees and their relatives were excluded from participation in the contest.
3. to expel and keep out; thrust out; eject: He was excluded from the club for infractions of the rules.
[1350-1400; ME < L excludere to shut out, cut off, equiv. to ex- EX-1 + -cludere (comb. form of claudere to close)]
Syn. 1. bar, prohibit, except, omit, preclude. 3. reject.
Ant. 1. include.

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