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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

excluir

Pronunciation / Transliteration: eksˈklur

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Exclude/ɪkˈskluːd/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1450 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele decidiu excluir certos membros do grupo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To deliberately leave out or not include something.

    "The committee decided to exclude certain members from the voting process."
  2. 2

    To prevent someone from participating in an activity.

    "She felt excluded from the group because she was not invited to the meeting."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb 'excludere', formed from 'ex-' (out of) and 'claudere' (to close). Entering Middle English in the 15th century via Old French, it retained its core semantic sense of shutting something or someone out from a place, group, or consideration.

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