Rule Out

Definition: Rule Out

Rule Out

Verb

1. Make impossible, esp. beforehand.

2. Include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules.

3. Dismiss from consideration; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Rule Out

Crosswords: Rule Out

I guess we can rule out Jimmy Carter (The Hollywood Squares; writing credit: Gary Johnson)

One black, one whitebut two are blonde which would rule out the Mod Squad (She Spies; writing credit: Ron Osborn; Josh Appelbaum)

Well we can rule out reading (8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter; writing credit: Stig Blyme; Lars Ellegaard)

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Books

• Did Christ Rule Out Woman Priests ? (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Health

Tests help rule out other possible causes of symptoms. (references)

A medical workup is recommended to rule out other conditions. (references)

A biopsy helps confirm inflammation and rule out bladder cancer. (references)

Business

Transportation costs also rule out their ability to process old cars from outside their region. (references)

Economic History

Venezuela

A new disposition of the law could rule out any international arbitration in joint ventures and could increase royalties. (references)

Venezuela

Article 24 appears to rule out foreign arbitration, but seems to envision the possibility of parties agreeing to domestic arbitration. (references)

South Korea

The U.S. team did not rule out the possibility that the site was intended for other nuclear-related uses, although it did not appear to be configured to support any large industrial nuclear functions. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

The crime was characterized by the PNC and the Minister of Interior as an attempted carjacking, but various human rights groups did not rule out the possibility of a political motive. (references)

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Expression using "rule out": rule out the possibilities. Additional references.

Albanian

përjashtoj (bar, cast out, count out, dispense, disqualify, drop, eliminate, except, exclude, excommunicate, expel, forbid, foreclose, oust, reject, score out, send down, weed out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ألغى (abolish, abort, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, deactivate, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, lift, negate, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scratch, scrub, set aside, spike, stop, undo, vacate), ‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заявявам че е неприемливо, изключвам (disconnect, disengage, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, foreclose, intercept, leave out, open, preclude, remove, shut off, throw out, trip, ungear). (various references)

Chinese 

�'除 (exclude). (various references)

Czech

vylouèit (debar, disqualify, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, foreclose, negate, pip, preclude, remove, shut, shut off, throw out). (various references)

Dutch

de voorbedachtheid verwerpen (to rule out criminal intent). (various references)

Finnish

sulkea pois (debar from, exclude). (various references)

French

rayer (rule), barrer, annuler, éliminer. (various references)

German

einen strich ziehen durch, ausschließen (bar, blackball, debar, deprive, disqualify, draw out, drive out, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, express, forbid, foreclose, give utterance to, leave out, lock out, preclude, precluding, pull out, space out, suspend, to exclude, to foreclose, to space out, utter). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפסול (cancel, disallow, disqualify, illegalize, invalidate, reject). (various references)

Hungarian

kizár (bar, disbar, disqualify, estop, exclude, foreclose, lock out, rub out, shut out, to blackball, to close off, to disbar, to disqualify, to except, to exclude, to expel, to foreclose, to keep out, to lock out, to shut out, to strangulate), elutasít (disclaim, dismiss, overrule, rebuff, refuse, reject, spurn, to decline, to discourage, to dismiss, to negative, to overrule, to project, to put back, to rebuff, to refuse, to reject, to repel, to repudiate, to repulse, to resist, to scout, to spurn, to throw out, to traverse, to turn away, to turn down). (various references)

Italian

escludere (bar, debar, disqualify, exclude, exclude one another, foreclose, leave out). (various references)

Manx

faagail magh (drop off, except, leave out, miss). (various references)

Pig Latin

uleray outay.(various references)

Portuguese

excluir (bar, bar from, bar out, barrier off, debar, delete, except, exclude, exscind, foreclose, preclude, reserve, seclude, shut off, strike out). (various references)

Romanian

exclude (bar, cut, disbar, exclude, excommunicate, expel, oust, preclude, suspend), declara necorespunzãtor. (various references)

Russian 

исключать (bar, be exclusive of, delete, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, foreclose, gate out, oust, truncate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabraniti (ban, bar, enjoin, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, suppress), isključiti (deal out, debar, declutch, disconnect, except, exclude, preclude, proscribe, shut out, turn off, unplug). (various references)

Spanish

excluir (bar, cut out, debar, except, exclude, include out, keep out, preclude, reject, shut out, squeeze out). (various references)

Swedish

utesluta (eliminate, exclude, leave out, ostracize, preclude, preclude from, shut out). (various references)

Thai

ไม่ยอมรับ (have a distaste for, take a dim view of), ขี�"ทับ, ขั�"ขวาง (balk, bar, deter, forbid, hinder, stymie, stymy, suffocate, thwart). (various references)

Turkish

reddetmek (abnegate, cast off, challenge, controvert, damn, declare off, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispute, draw the line, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, Nix, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, veto, wave aside), silmek (blank, blot out, cancel, cross out, Dele, delete, efface, erase, expunge, forgive, furbish, give smth. a wipe, obliterate, rub down, rub off, rub out, rule smth. out, strike off, strike out, whisk, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, write off), kabul etmemek (cast to the winds, decline, disapprove, disclaim, gainsay, refuse, reject, repudiate, rule smth. out of order, turn thumbs down on, wave aside), diskalifiye etmek (disqualify), almamak, çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

Ukrainian

виключати (arrest, bar, count out, cut away, cut off, declutch, dismember, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, foreclose, open, oust, send down, shut out), проводити лінію. (various references)

abnuo. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: outer, outre, route.

-3 letters: euro, lore, lour, lout, lure, lute, orle, role, rote, rotl, roue, rout, rule, tole, tolu, tore, tour, true, tule.

-4 letters: let, leu, lot, ole, ore, ort, our, out, ret, roe, rot, rue, rut, tel, toe, tor, ulu.

-5 letters: el, er, et, lo, oe, or, re, to, ut.

+2 letters: coculture, tremulous.

+3 letters: adulterous, blusterous, cocultured, cocultures, untroubled.

+4 letters: courteously, microtubule, monoculture, multicourse, multisource, neurulation, strenuously, tremulously, tuberculoid, tuberculous, venturously.

+5 letters: adulterously, elucubration, floriculture, futurologies, horticulture, lustrousness, microculture, microtubules, monocultures, mournfullest, multicourses, multipurpose, neurulations, nonturbulent, outrageously, salutiferous, semilustrous, seropurulent, slaughterous, superovulate, surmountable, thundercloud, thunderously, tuberculoses, tuberculosis, ultraserious, unformulated, voluptuaries.