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Rule out   /rul aʊt/   Listen
Rule out

verb
1.
Make impossible, especially beforehand.  Synonyms: close out, preclude.
2.
Include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules.  Synonym: rule in.
3.
Dismiss from consideration or a contest.  Synonyms: eliminate, reject, winnow out.  "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"





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"Rule out" Quotes from Famous Books



... walks there; but an anomalous complex of both these, and of innumerable other heterogeneities; reducible to no rubric, if not to this newly devised one: King Louis Restorer of French Liberty? Man indeed, and King Louis like other men, lives in this world to make rule out of the ruleless; by his living energy, he shall force the absurd itself to become less absurd. But then if there be no living energy; living passivity only? King Serpent, hurled into his unexpected watery dominion, did at least bite, ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle


Words linked to "Rule out" :   rule, winnow out, obviate, reject, rid of, decree


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