exclude

1. (transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.Examples: "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."Synonyms: debar

2. (transitive) To expel; to put out.Examples: "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, […]"Synonyms: eject

3. (transitive) To omit from consideration.Examples: "Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers."Synonyms: omit

4. (transitive, law) To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.

5. (transitive, medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.