except
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Is except a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.Examples: "I find most people annoying — present company excepted, of course!"; "But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews."transitive
2. (intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).Examples: "to except to a witness or his testimony"; "Except thou wilt except against my love."; "Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words […]."intransitive
conj (English)
1. (informal) Loosely, used to introduce a contrastive statement explaining why something wasn't successful, didn't happen, etc.Examples: "They fired tear gas at us, except the wind was blowing the wrong way."; "I almost walked out, except I remembered the promise I had made."informal
2. (archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.Examples: "And they sayde: We have no moo but five loves and two fisshes, except we shulde goo and bye meate for all this people."; "If I ſay ſooth, I muſt report they were / As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks, / So they doubly redoubled ſtroakes vpon the Foe: / Except they meant to bathe in reeking Wounds, / Or memorize another Golgotha, / I cannot tell: but I am faint, / My Gaſhes cry for helpe."; "Offensive wars, except the cause be very just, I will not allow of."archaic
Definition source: Wiktionary