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Exclude vs Seclude - What's the difference?

exclude | seclude |

As verbs the difference between exclude and seclude

is that exclude is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out while seclude is to shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw from society or into solitude: as, to seclude oneself from the world.

exclude

English

Verb

(exclud)
  • To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
  • To expel; to put out.
  • to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
  • (legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
  • (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
  • Antonyms

    * include

    seclude

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw from society or into solitude: as, to seclude oneself from the world.
  • To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.
  • Derived terms

    * secluded * secludedly

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