exclude

verb

1. 1

   To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.

   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 [...].

   [T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.

2. 2

   To expel; to put out.

   to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs

   […] 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. 3

   To omit from consideration.

   Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.

4. 4

   To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.

5. 5

   To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

Forms

past tense

excluded

past participle

excluded

present participle

excluding

third person singular

excludes