MEANING
Leave someone or something out of a place, group, consideration, or calculation.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- exclude outliers
- exclude a possibility
On the page
The researchers did not exclude outliers without a stated reason.
Nearby words
Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- exclude
- Past tense
- excluded
- Past participle
- excluded
- Present participle
- excluding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- exclude
- Present continuous
- am/is/are excluding
- Present perfect
- have/has excluded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been excluding
- Past
- excluded
- Past continuous
- was/were excluding
- Past perfect
- had excluded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been excluding
- Future
- will exclude
- Future continuous
- will be excluding
- Future perfect
- will have excluded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been excluding
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: exclude; excludes; excluded; excluded; excluding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: excludes.
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