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Exclude

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.

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Manner of action 8

Bounce 76% connected

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

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Curse 76% connected

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

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Elide 76% connected

To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.

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Evict 76% connected

To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

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Excommunicate 76% connected

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

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Exorcise 76% connected

To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (…

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Ostracize 76% connected

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.

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Unchurch 76% connected

To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.

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Disallow 76% connected

To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Extinguish 76% connected

To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…

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Forbid 76% connected

of Forbid

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Interdict 76% connected

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

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Keep 76% connected

To care; to desire.

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Lack 76% connected

Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

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Miss 76% connected

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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Nix 76% connected

One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

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Prevent 76% connected

To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

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Prohibit 76% connected

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, an…

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Proscribe 76% connected

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.

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Veto 76% connected

An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

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Ejection 74% connected

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

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Ejection 74% connected

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

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Ejector 74% connected

One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.

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Ejector 74% connected

One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.

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Exclusion 74% connected

The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of bein…

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Exclusion 74% connected

The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of bein…

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Exclusive 74% connected

Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive b…

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Exclusive 74% connected

Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive b…

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Synonym 6

Bar 92% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Debar 92% connected

To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or re…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Eject 92% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Except 92% connected

To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

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Omit 92% connected

To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shut 92% connected

of Shut

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Antonym 4

Admit 94% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

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Admit 94% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

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Include 94% connected

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

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Include 94% connected

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

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