excluding

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.