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Excluding

To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.

📖 Definitions of "Excluding"

verb

1
To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
2
To expel; to put out.
"to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs"
3
To omit from consideration.
"Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers."
4
To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.

preposition

1
To the exclusion of; not including
"Our lucky free draw winner will be treated to dinner, bed and breakfast, but the holiday must be taken before December, 1991 (subject to availability and excluding bank holidays)."

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
debarverb	(transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
keep outverb	(intransitive) To refrain from entering a place or condition.
leave offverb	(informal) To desist; to cease.
shut outverb	(transitive) To prevent from entering; to block or exclude.
expelverb	(transitive) To eject.
kick outverb	(idiomatic, transitive) To eject, dismiss, expel, or forcefully remove (someone or something).
boot outverb	(transitive, colloquial) Emphatic synonym of kick out: to remove, to eject, to expel; to dismiss (from a position, job, etc.).
omitverb	(transitive) To leave out or exclude.
turf outverb	(transitive, informal, usually of a person) To remove or eject from a place.
ejectverb	(transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
take outverb	To remove.
chuck outverb	(slang, transitive) To discard, to dispose of (something).
leave outverb	To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention.
shutverb	(transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.
throw outverb	(idiomatic) To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.
exceptverb	(transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
turn outverb	(intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result.
barverb	(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
banningnoun	The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.
barringnoun	The exclusion of someone; blackballing.