ausschließen — meaning in English
German → English · translate English → German instead
English meaning
- debar verb To exclude or shut out; to bar.
- 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 ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- 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
- verb To exclude or shut out; to bar.
- verb To hinder or prevent.
- verb To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
except — full definition
- preposition Used to introduce something left out of a general statement.
- conjunction Used to introduce an exception or a reason something didn't happen.
- verb To leave something out or mark it as an exception (a more formal, less common usage).