EXCLUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exclude mean? 

• EXCLUDE (verb)
  The verb EXCLUDE has 5 senses:

1. prevent from being included or considered or accepted

2. prevent from entering; shut out

3. lack or fail to include

4. prevent from entering; keep out

5. put out or expel from a place

  Familiarity information: EXCLUDE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCLUDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exclude    ... he / she / it excludes   
Past simple: excluded   
Past participle: excluded   
-ing form: excluding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prevent from being included or considered or accepted

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

except; exclude; leave off; leave out; omit; take out

Context example:

Leave off the top piece

Hypernyms (to "exclude" is one way to...):

do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exclude"):

elide (leave or strike out)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody

Antonym:

include (consider as part of something)

Derivation:

exclusion (a deliberate act of omission)

exclusive (not divided or shared with others)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prevent from entering; shut out

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

exclude; keep out; shut; shut out

Context example:

This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country

Hypernyms (to "exclude" is one way to...):

keep; prevent (stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exclude"):

curse; excommunicate; unchurch (exclude from a church or a religious community)

lock out (prevent employees from working during a strike)

ostracise; ostracize (avoid speaking to or dealing with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

admit (allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of)

Derivation:

exclusion (the state of being excluded)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lack or fail to include

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages

Hypernyms (to "exclude" is one way to...):

lack; miss (be without)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

include (have as a part, be made up out of)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Prevent from entering; keep out

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bar; debar; exclude

Context example:

He was barred from membership in the club

Hypernyms (to "exclude" is one way to...):

disallow; forbid; interdict; nix; prohibit; proscribe; veto (command against)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

exclusion (the state of being excluded)

exclusive (excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Put out or expel from a place

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out

Context example:

The unruly student was excluded from the game

Hypernyms (to "exclude" is one way to...):

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exclude"):

evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)

evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)

show the door (ask to leave)

bounce (eject from the premises)

exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

exclusion (the act of forcing out someone or something)

 Context examples 

Also called atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude a high-grade lesion.

(ASC-H, NCI Dictionary)

A human biological structure, fluid or other substance; excludes single molecular entities.

(Anatomic Structure, System, or Substance, NCI Thesaurus)

Atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude a high-grade lesion may be a sign of a high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL), which may become cervical cancer if untreated.

(Atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude a high-grade lesion, NCI Dictionary)

Cases of transformed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and CLL with increased prolymphocytes are excluded.

(B-Cell Prolymphocytic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

A term describing a benign soft tissue tumor which consists of two or more mesenchymal lines of differentiation, excluding a fibroblastic line of differentiation.

(Benign Mesenchymoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Familial adenomatous polyposis should be excluded in the colorectal cancer cases; 6.

(Amsterdam Criteria II, NCI Thesaurus)

Familial adenomatous polyposis should be excluded; 5.

(Amsterdam Criteria, NCI Thesaurus)

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once Mars moves into Scorpio on November 18, to stay until January 3, you will begin to travel a bit more, and it will be easier to do so (excluding the weekend of November 23-24).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The surface is textured with microscopic wrinkles that exclude all external molecules.

(Scientists Create Superbug-Resistant Self-Cleaning Surface, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)