exclude
verb
[ ɪkˈskluːd ]
• deny (someone) access to a place, group, or privilege.
• "the public were excluded from the board meeting"
Similar:
keep out,
deny access to,
shut out,
debar,
disbar,
bar,
ban,
prohibit,
put an embargo on,
embargo,
reject,
blackball,
ostracize,
banish,
cut out,
freeze out,
send to Coventry,
• remove from consideration.
• "one cannot exclude the possibility of a fall in house prices"
Opposite:
allow for,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin excludere, from ex- ‘out’ + claudere ‘to shut’.
