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  1. to prevent someone or something from entering a place or taking part in an activity: be excluded fromWomen are still excluded from the club. Microbes must, as far as possible, be excluded from the room during an operation. UK Tom has been excluded from school (= he is not allowed to go to school) for bad behaviour. Compare. include. C1.

  2. The meaning of EXCLUDE is to prevent or restrict the entrance of. How to use exclude in a sentence.

  3. Exclude definition: to shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of.. See examples of EXCLUDE used in a sentence.

  4. Exclude means to leave out — like when the cool kids won't let you in on their game of four-square or the pizza guy leaves your neighborhood out from his delivery zone. Exclude comes to us from the Latin word excludere, which means "to shut."

  5. to decide that something is not true or possible: exclude the possibility We can't exclude the possibility that he is dead. Fewer examples. It wasn't my intention to exclude her from the list - I just forgot her. Couples who are childless can feel excluded from the rest of society.

  6. To exclude something such as the sun's rays or harmful germs means to prevent them physically from reaching or entering a particular place.

  7. Exclude means to prevent from entering, being included, or accepted; or to expel or eject. See the origin, synonyms, and usage of exclude in different contexts and languages.