exclude
/ɪksˈkluːd/ verb B2- To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
- To expel; to put out. · to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
- To omit from consideration. · Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
- To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
- To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
He/she/it excludes · Past excluded · Past participle excluded · -ing form excluding
Verb forms
- Base form
- exclude
- He/she/it
- excludes
- Past
- excluded
- Past participle
- excluded
- -ing form
- excluding
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And desirous of putting an end to the interview, he pushed by her, and closed the door, as if to exclude the pain he felt.
And yet it was not because the damp had been excluded from the garden; the earth, black as soot, the thick foliage of the trees betrayed its presence; besides, had natural humidity been wanting, it could have been immediately supplied by artificial means, thanks to a tank of water, sunk in one of the corners of the garden, and upon which were stationed a frog and a toad, who, from antipathy, no doubt, always remained on the two opposite sides of the basin.
“Well,” said the banker to his daughter, “are we then all to be excluded?”
However, this relentless march of infrastructural progress exacted a profound toll on communities that found themselves excluded from the grand master plan.
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