rule out
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Verb
rule out (third-person singular simple present rules out, present participle ruling out, simple past and past participle ruled out)
- (transitive) To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
- As Jane Doe had an alibi, the police were able to rule her out as a suspect.
- 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726:
- In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.
- 2014 September 12, “Deadly New Taipei blaze: arson suspected”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 03 October 2022, Society:
- Arson has not been ruled out in a fire that broke out Friday in Yungho, New Taipei, causing one death and 24 injuries, the city's fire department said that day.
- 2020 April 8, “Network News: MML still on electrification agenda”, in Rail, page 23:
- Electrification of the Midland Main Line has not been ruled out.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
- The constant rain ruled out any chance of a game of tennis.
- (transitive) To disallow.
- (transitive) To make unavailable.
- 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
- Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department.
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to cross out
to reject from list of possibilities
to make something impossible
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