Definitions
prevent from being included or considered or accepted
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).
Used in a sentence
“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”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Keep out”7 letters
02“Leave out”7 letters
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