Anticipating feverish duel, Europe embraces the crossbar!

• Rule out
• Shut out
• Keep out
• Leave out
• Omit old crossword feature to accommodate daughter
• Bar — omit

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Latin excludere "keep out, shut out, hinder," from ex- "out" (see ex- ) + claudere "to close, shut" (see close (v.)). Related: Excluded ; excluding .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES rule out/exclude a possibility (= say that something will definitely not happen or is definitely not true ) ▪ We can't rule out the possibility that there will be more redundancies. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out. 2 To expel; to put out. 3 (context legal of evidence English) To refuse to accept as valid. 4 (context medicine English) To eliminate from diagnosis consideration.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia