Dictionary Entry
except
except is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, preposition, conjunction, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
- 2transitive verb
To object to; to protest against.
- 3intransitive verb
To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
- 4preposition
With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
- 5conjunction
Unless; if it be not so that.
- 6verb
prevent from being included or considered or accepted
"The bad results were excluded from the report"
"Leave off the top piece"
- 7verb
take exception to
"he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"
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