exclude
/ɪksˈkluːd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.78 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]"
- "Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *(s)kleh₂w-, exclūdō