What is the difference between preclude and exclude?
preclude | exclude |
Remove the possibility of; (l); prevent or exclude; to make (l).
* {{quote-web
, date = 2013-08-09
, author = Douglas Main
, title = Israel Outlaws Water Fluoridation
, site = livescience
, url = http://www.livescience.com/38796-israel-outlaws-water-fluoridation.html
, accessdate = 2013-09-30
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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 preclude and exclude
is that preclude is remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible while exclude is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.preclude
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(preclud)- It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the possibility that the skies will clear by this afternoon!
- Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.
Derived terms
* precludable * preclusion * preclusive * preclusivelyexclude
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Verb
(exclud)- to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs