except
The preposition except means “excluding.” When we refer to the continental United States, we mean the whole country except Alaska and Hawaii.
This word can also be used as a conjunction meaning “but”: If you’re not very hungry, you might not eat anything, except a few crackers. As a verb, except is often used in the past tense: All drivers must obey the speed limit, but ambulances rushing to the hospital are excepted. Much more rare is the use of except as a verb meaning “to object,” which we find mostly in legal contexts.
Definitions of except
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prevent from being included or considered or accepted
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Antonyms:
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include
consider as part of something
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type of:
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do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of
terminate, end, or take out
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include
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take exception to
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