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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
exclude
    v 1: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The
         bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the
         top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave
         off, omit, take out] [ant: include]
    2: prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out
       all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a
       criminal record from entering the country" [syn: exclude,
       keep out, shut out, shut] [ant: admit, include,
       let in]
    3: lack or fail to include; "The cost for the trip excludes food
       and beverages" [ant: include]
    4: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from
       membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude]
    5: put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was
       excluded from the game" [syn: eject, chuck out,
       exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Exclude \Ex*clude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excluded; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Excluding.] [L. excludere, exclusum; ex out +
   claudere to shut. See Close.]
   1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to
      debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to
      except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd
      from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one
      nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer
      from the privilege of voting.
      [1913 Webster]

            And none but such, from mercy I exclude. --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young
      animals from the womb or from eggs.
      [1913 Webster]

   Excluded middle. (logic) The name given to the third of the
      "three logical axioms," so-called, namely, to that one
      which is expressed by the formula: "Everything is either A
      or Not-A." no third state or condition being involved or
      allowed. See Principle of contradiction, under
      Contradiction.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for exclude:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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