to excise
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7.2
- verb
- /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
- Formal
:
extirpar
- The surgeon decided to excise the tumor to prevent further health complications.
- excised tumor
- excised lesion
- excised tissue
Yeah, 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
∞
1.5
To move something or someone away from a place
948
1.9
To remove something from a place or container
502
3.4
Remove or kill something completely so it is gone
287
2.0
To remove information like text or files so it cannot be seen
189
4.2
Destroy something so nothing is left
166
3.9
To remove something from somewhere, often by effort, or to get information
144
1.6
Remove marks, writing, or digital files so they are no longer visible
136
3.2
To remove something unwanted from a place
100
5.6
To cut something completely away from a larger thing with a knife or tool
80
3.4
To remove or cancel something, for example a meeting
77
3.2
To remove a shape from paper or cloth using scissors
42
2.7
Remove all covering or contents from an object so it is left bare
27
4.0
Remove an outside layer or covering from something to show what is under it
24
4.8
To pull something out with force
21
8.8
To remove all signs of something like a record or memory so it cannot be found
20
3.8
To remove unwanted things from water, air, or lists by letting the rest pass
11
3.2
Remove part of a film, recording, or text before release
9
4.6
To cut a part from something with one quick move
5
3.4
To remove a part from something with a knife or tool
2
8.1
To remove something so it is no longer visible or remembered
1
9.6
Change parts of a book, play or text to remove words people find offensive
1
6.4
To remove words or other information from a document to hide them
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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Surface Forms
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.