Nixed vs Excluded - What's the difference?
nixed | excluded |
(nix)
(colloquial): nothing.
To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
* {{quote-news
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, date=June 17
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, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)
, work=The Onion AV Club
To destroy or eradicate.
A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.
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(exclude)
To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
To expel; to put out.
(legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
(medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
As verbs the difference between nixed and excluded
is that nixed is past tense of nix while excluded is past tense of exclude.nixed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*nix
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nix, colloquial form of . More at (l).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* nada * zipVerb
(es)- Nix the last order - the customer walked out.
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Etymology 2
Noun
(es)excluded
English
Verb
(head)exclude
English
Verb
(exclud)- to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs