v. t. | 1. | To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. |
2. | To object to; to protest against. | |
v. i. | 1. | To take exception; to object; - usually followed by to, sometimes by against; |
prep. | 1. | With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting. |
conj. | 1. | Unless; if it be not so that. |
Verb | 1. | except - take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday" Synonyms: demur |
2. | except - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" |