Exclude vs Confine - What's the difference?
exclude | confine |
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.
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
As a verb exclude
is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.As an adjective confine is
stale.exclude
English
Verb
(exclud)- to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
Antonyms
* includeconfine
English
Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.