uninclude

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ include

Verb[edit]

uninclude (third-person singular simple present unincludes, present participle unincluding, simple past and past participle unincluded)

  1. (rare) To exclude.
    • 1984 Summer, Gregory Blake Smith, “Snowblind”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 6, number 3:
      "Are you telling me now you didn't mean it, that you were talking-" and he stopped and looked at me. It was a look like to include me or uninclude me.
    • 2004, Kerry Blasingim, We are All L337: Examining the Cultural Message of Webcomics (Masters Thesis, SIU), page 9:
      It is only just specific enough to uninclude the mainstream audience of the dictionary, but nowhere near the level of precision required to refer to, and only to, members of the desired subculture.
    • 2014, Josin L McQuein, Meridian, →ISBN:
      If her attempt to uninclude someone from the Fade's hive had worked, then it might have been possible to reclaim the world for humans and undo the damage of the last several decades.