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except
1. verb /ɛksɛpt/
a) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.

b) To take exception, to object (to or against).

Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words...

2. preposition /ɛksɛpt/
With the exception of; but.

There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.

Syn: bar, but, save
3. conjunction /ɛksɛpt/
a) With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.

You look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair.

b) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

I never made fun of her except teasingly.


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