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ausschließen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • debar verb To stop someone from entering somewhere or taking part in something.
  • except preposition Used to introduce something left out of a general statement.
  • exclude verb To keep someone or something out, or leave it out of consideration.
  • kick off verb To begin something, especially an event, campaign or meeting.
  • ostracize verb To send someone out of a city for several years, as was done in ancient Athens.
  • preclude verb To make something impossible or rule it out in advance.
  • shun verb To deliberately avoid someone or something, often as a form of social rejection.

Senses

ausschließen is used for these senses in English:

  • debar (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
  • except (transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
  • except (intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).
  • kick off (transitive) To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
  • ostracize (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun. [from mid 17th c.]
  • preclude (transitive) To remove the possibility of; to rule out; to prevent or exclude; to render impossible.
  • rule out (idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
  • shun (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.

debar — full definition

  1. verb To stop someone from entering somewhere or taking part in something.
  2. verb To get in the way of something and stop it happening.
  3. verb (law) To ban a person or company found guilty of crimes against a government scheme from taking part in it again.

except — full definition

  1. preposition Used to introduce something left out of a general statement.
  2. conjunction Used to introduce an exception or a reason something didn't happen.
  3. verb To leave something out or mark it as an exception (a more formal, less common usage).
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