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excludes

excludes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of exclude.

Meaning of exclude

Verb

exclude (third-person singular simple present excludes, present participle excluding, simple past and past participle excluded)

  1. (transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
    • 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 [...].1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766
    Synonyms:
    debar
  2. (transitive) To expel; to put out.
    • to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
    Synonyms:
    eject
  3. (transitive) To omit from consideration.
    • Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
    Synonyms:
    omit
  4. (transitive) To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
  5. (transitive) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

Questions about excludes

What is excludes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Excludes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of exclude.

Words near excludes in the dictionary

  1. excludedness
  2. excludee
  3. excludees
  4. excluder
  5. excluders
  6. excludes
  7. excludest
  8. excludibility
  9. excludible
  10. excluding
  11. excludingly

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