exclude

To prevent someone or something from entering, joining, or being included.

• Please don't exclude anyone.
• She felt excluded from the group.
• The fence excludes animals from the garden.

How to use it: exclude someone/something from something (The club excludes children from its evening events.)

Similar words: keep out, bar

Opposites: include, admit

Common phrases: exclude someone, exclude someone from something, exclude outsiders

To deliberately leave something out of a calculation, discussion, list, or set of possibilities.

• The price excludes tax.
• We excluded damaged items from the count.
• The evidence does not exclude the possibility of an accident.

How to use it: exclude something from something (We excluded transport costs from the calculation.)

Similar words: leave out, omit, rule out

Opposites: include

Common phrases: exclude tax, exclude a possibility, exclude something from something

To push or release something from inside a body or container.

• The female excludes her young at birth.
• The old text describes chicks excluded from eggs.
• The writer used this term for matter excluded from the body.

How to use it: exclude something from something (The account describes how young are excluded from the womb.)

Similar words: expel, eject

Common phrases: exclude young, exclude from eggs, exclude from something