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Repeal vs Exclude - What's the difference?

repeal | exclude |

As verbs the difference between repeal and exclude

is that repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul while exclude is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.

As a noun repeal

is an act or instance of repealing.

repeal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
  • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
  • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.
  • Anagrams

    *

    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