count out

(transitive, of a person) To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.

(transitive) To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.

(transitive, boxing, wrestling, professional wrestling) To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated.

(transitive) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.

(transitive) To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.