to excise
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7.2
- verb
- /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
- Formal
- The surgeon decided to excise the tumor to prevent further health complications.
- excised tumor
- excised lesion
- excised tissue
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Watch on YouTubeYeah, just to to try and essentially excise their country of this minority.
- Yeah, just to to try and essentially excise their country of this minority.
- So that's, so that piece of the the case is really, you know, excised out.
- And what they try to do is target in the brain these, you know, difficult, painful experiences and just excise them from the brain.
- But in drama, they excise out the things that would make the character look ridiculous.
- And then I would write it and then he would read it and tell me all the bits that could be excised.
- And then spent a good portion of the of the remaining years between then and now excising the opinions I realized I was holding because they were his.
- It's painful because you may be trying to only excise or cut out one family member, like just one parent or sibling.
- Again, in families it is very difficult to excise and just pull out one toxic family member and keep the rest.
- Secondary reaction is, hey, we excise the cancer, the, the, the debt is gone.
Examples
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Common practice is to excise the tumor with open or endoscopic surgery.
Academic text (2008) -
It's time to excise that cancerous lump.
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And what they try to do is target in the brain these, you know, difficult, painful experiences and just excise them from the brain.
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I think we owe it to my guy to at least excise the tumor and test it.
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All record of their ever having been on the Enterprise has been excised from the computer's memory.
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So Dr. Fields, Dr. Gregory, and myself have concluded the only way to save Emily is to excise the teratoma.
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The lesion was excised with 3 mm around all sides down to the frontalis muscle.
Academic text (2012) -
The mass was surgically excised, and no recurrence was noted more than 2 years postoperatively.
Academic text (1999) -
The mass was completely excised, and the bony defect was smoothed with a diamond drill.
Academic text (2002) -
It is imperative that each one of us confront our own personal as well as institutional bias and prejudice, and to excise them in any way that we can.
Synonyms
∞
1.9
To remove something from a place or container
∞
1.5
To move something or someone away from a place
769
3.4
Remove or kill something completely so it is gone
370
2.0
To remove information like text or files so it cannot be seen
347
4.2
Destroy something so nothing is left
347
3.2
To remove a shape from paper or cloth using scissors
175
3.9
To remove something from somewhere, often by effort, or to get information
146
3.2
To remove something unwanted from a place
129
2.7
Remove all covering or contents from an object so it is left bare
77
4.8
To pull something out with force
74
5.6
To cut something completely away from a larger thing with a knife or tool
39
4.0
Remove an outside layer or covering from something to show what is under it
29
3.4
To remove or cancel something, for example a meeting
27
3.8
To remove unwanted things from water, air, or lists by letting the rest pass
25
3.4
To remove a part from something with a knife or tool
22
8.8
To remove all signs of something like a record or memory so it cannot be found
21
3.2
Remove part of a film, recording, or text before release
19
1.6
Remove marks, writing, or digital files so they are no longer visible
14
4.6
To cut a part from something with one quick move
3
8.1
To remove something so it is no longer visible or remembered
3
6.4
To remove words or other information from a document to hide them
1
9.6
Change parts of a book, play or text to remove words people find offensive
1
9.9
To remove an organ or body tissue completely by surgery
To remove the contents of an organ by surgery
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.5
A tax on goods like tobacco and alcohol charged for each item or amount sold
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Etymology
Excise comes from Latin ex- 'out' and caedere 'to cut', so to excise something is to 'cut out' part of a body or a text, making the idea of removing by cutting easy to remember.