Crossword clues for rule out
rule out
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler. 2 (context idiomatic transitive English) To reject an option from a list of possibilities. 3 (context idiomatic transitive English) To make something impossible. 4 (context transitive English) to disallow
WordNet
v. make impossible, especially beforehand [syn: preclude, close out]
include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules [syn: rule in]
dismiss from consideration; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration" [syn: eliminate, reject]
Usage examples of "rule out".
If I were, I would have to rule out such science fiction staples as faster-than-light travel, telepathy, and time travel, and so miss out on about ninety percent of everything that's written.
For although his experiments appear to disprove Lunan's choice of an alien star that is trying to make itself known to us, and also the type of code it has used, he does not rule out the original Bracewell theory that a probe is orbiting Earth.
The results didn't rule out the possibility that Gersten had smoked cocaine, but they indicated that he wasn't a regular user.
We could not rule out the possibility that he would decide to choose the time and place of his own demise by ordering a nuclear strike on Tel Aviv so that he could go down in history as the Arab leader who finally obliterated the state of Israel.