exclude

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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:
      [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, 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.

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

Translations

Latin

Verb

exclūde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of exclūdō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excludere.

Pronunciation

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

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