All rule out synonyms

verb rule out

• clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
• delete — If you delete something that has been written down or stored in a computer, you cross it out or remove it.
• lay aside — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• foreclose — Law. to deprive (a mortgagor or pledgor) of the right to redeem his or her property, especially on failure to make payment on a mortgage when due, ownership of property then passing to the mortgagee. to take away the right to redeem (a mortgage or pledge).
• blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
• lock out — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
• corked — (of a wine) tainted through having a cork containing excess tannin
• leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• disbarred — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
• beat off — to drive back; repel
• inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
• freeze out — the act of freezing; state of being frozen.
• eat one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
• avert — If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
• make for — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• nig — nidge.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
• lay down the law — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
• draw in — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).