exclude

Verb

1. To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
   • 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. - 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With...
2. To expel; to put out.
   • 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...
3. To omit from consideration.
   • Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
4. To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
5. To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.