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verb/ɪkˈsaɪz/
/ɪkˈsaɪz/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they excise | /ɪkˈsaɪz/ /ɪkˈsaɪz/ |
| he / she / it excises | /ɪkˈsaɪzɪz/ /ɪkˈsaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple excised | /ɪkˈsaɪzd/ /ɪkˈsaɪzd/ |
| past participle excised | /ɪkˈsaɪzd/ /ɪkˈsaɪzd/ |
| -ing form excising | /ɪkˈsaɪzɪŋ/ /ɪkˈsaɪzɪŋ/ |
- excise something (from something) to remove something completely
- Certain passages were excised from the book.
- He carefully excised any passages that might cause offence.
- The sensor improves the precision with which surgeons can excise brain tumours.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘notch or hollow out’): from Latin excis- ‘cut out’, from the verb excidere, from ex- ‘out of’ + caedere ‘to cut’.
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