exclude

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).

verb

1. (transitive) 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 …. 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766
   [David] Brog spoke movingly of his immigrant grandfather as a triumph of the assimilationist model—a Romanian Jew who emigrated to America, learned English, and became a good patriotic American—but failed to mention that the 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country. 2019-7-24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents
2. (transitive) To expel; to put out.
   to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
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.