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Verb: except  ik'sept
  1. Take exception to
    - demur
     
  2. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted
    - exclude, leave out, leave off, omit, take out
Conjunction: except  ik'sept
  1. Other than; used to introduce an exception to a proceeding statement
    "I'd tell you the story, except I can't remember how it begins"
    - save

Sounds like: accept

Derived forms: excepting, excepts, excepted

See also: exception

Type of: do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of, object