exclude

Definition

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

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs"