| except | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. demur, except | take exception to.; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday" |
| ~ object | express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent.; "She never objected to the amount of work her boss charged her with"; "When asked to drive the truck, she objected that she did not have a driver's license" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out | prevent from being included or considered or accepted.; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" |
| ~ do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish | terminate, end, or take out.; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" |
| ~ elide | leave or strike out.; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant" |
| keep away | | |
| v. (social) | 1. keep away | prevent from coming close.; "I tried to keep the child away from the pool" |
| ~ prevent, keep | stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state.; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles" |
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