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ausschließen — meaning in English

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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

  1. verb To exclude or shut out; to bar.
  2. verb To hinder or prevent.
  3. 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

  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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