a short piece of writing, music, film, etc. taken from a longer whole Read the following excerpt from one of Milton's poems. They only played a short excerpt.
NAmE//ɛkˈsərpt//, NAmE//ˈɛksərpt//
verb excerpt something (from something) The document was excerpted from an unidentified FBI file.See excerpt in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: excerpt