Allow and Exclude

Allow

Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.

Exclude is an antonym for allow in help topic.

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Exclude

Exclude verb - To prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of.

Allow is an antonym for exclude in topics: keep out, expel, include.

Nearby Words: exclusion, excluding, excluder, excludable

Common collocations

people allow people exclude people
children allow children exclude children
death allow death exclude death
possibility allow possibility exclude possibility
Other words: use, characters, magic, anyone, women, powers.

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Deadliest Warrior Viet Cong battle: the VC allow women into their ranks, while the Waffen-SS exclude anyone who's so much as 1/64th Jewish ancestry.
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Exclude and Allow. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/exclude
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