Allow
Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.
Exclude
Exclude verb - To prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of.
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
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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.
Source: Series / Deadliest Warrior
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Exclude and Allow. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/exclude
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