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Word entry · 6 letters

except

Best crossword clue

"Not including"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ɪkˈsɛpt/Part of speech verbSorted ceeptxStarts with EEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. prevent from being included or considered or accepted

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French excepter, from Latin exceptus.

Used in a sentence

  • I find most people annoying — present company excepted, of course!
  • But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.
  • to except to a witness or his testimony

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