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Definition of excerpt verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

excerpt

verb
 
/ekˈsɜːpt/
 
/ekˈsɜːrpt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they excerpt
 
/ekˈsɜːpt/
 
/ekˈsɜːrpt/
he / she / it excerpts
 
/ekˈsɜːpts/
 
/ekˈsɜːrpts/
past simple excerpted
 
/ekˈsɜːptɪd/
 
/ekˈsɜːrptɪd/
past participle excerpted
 
/ekˈsɜːptɪd/
 
/ekˈsɜːrptɪd/
-ing form excerpting
 
/ekˈsɜːptɪŋ/
 
/ekˈsɜːrptɪŋ/
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  1. excerpt something (from something) to take a short piece of writing, music, film, etc. from a longer whole
    • The document was excerpted from an unidentified FBI file.

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