Synonyms for exclude
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Eliminate
eliminate, shut out, eject, throw out, expel, proscribe, keep out, shut, banish, excommunicate, thrust out, oust, boot out, turf out informal, dismiss, discard, evict, discharge, chuck out slang
2. Omit
omit, except, leave out, reject, take out, delete, leave off, miss out, miss off UK, turn away
Other
forbar dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
- v. 2
To expel; to put out.
to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
- v. 3
To omit from consideration.
Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
Forms
- Past participle
- excluded
e.g. excluded → eliminated, ejected, expelled, proscribed…
Example sentences
- eliminate Algeria needs to eliminate its endemic corruption.
- expel The elders decided to expel him from the village.
- banish I've tried to banish the memory of him crying.
- except Your composition was good except for the spelling.
- omit This detail is unimportant. You can safely omit it.
By length
- 3 letters
- bar1
- 4 letters
- shut1, omit2, oust1
- 5 letters
- expel2, eject2, evict2, debar
- 6 letters
- except2, delete2, reject2, hinder2, banish2, forbar
- 7 letters
- dismiss2, discard2
- 8 letters
- prohibit3, preclude2
- 9 letters
- eliminate4, discharge2, foreclose2, proscribe2
- 13 letters
- excommunicate5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (omit2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- exclure
- Italiano
- tagliare fuori
- Español
- excluir
- Deutsch
- ausschließen
- Català
- excloure