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Excluded vs Expelled - What's the difference?

excluded | expelled |

As verbs the difference between excluded and expelled

is that excluded is past tense of exclude while expelled is past tense of expel.

excluded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (exclude)

  • 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

    expelled

    English

    Alternative forms

    *expeled (US )

    Verb

    (head)
  • (expel)

  • expel

    English

    Verb

  • To eject or erupt.
  • (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
  • * , II.xi:
  • But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell .
  • To remove from membership.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Angelique Chrisafis
  • , title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism, work=Guardian citation , page=, passage=She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.}}
  • To deport.
  • Synonyms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), turf out

    Antonyms

    * impel