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excised

American  
[ik-sahyzd, ek-sahyzd] / ɪkˈsaɪzd, ˈɛkˌsaɪzd /

adjective

  1. having been cut out, expunged, or cut away.

    The margins of the excised tissue were cancer-free.

    We are reprinting the original table with the excised information restored.


verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of excise.

Etymology

Origin of excised

excise 2 ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. )

Example Sentences

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When you start googling about the emoluments clause, the first thing that keeps coming up is “What ever happened to the emoluments clause,” as though it was excised from the Constitution.

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

This is a film McElwee feels compelled to make, as if it were something living inside of him that had to be excised by any means necessary.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

The movie is more condensed than the novel; Hitchcock accepted that the film medium cannot access the inner thoughts of a human being, and so significant swaths of the book were excised.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Calling her posts “abhorrent and unacceptable,” Lucasfilm excised her character from “The Mandalorian” and canceled an upcoming spinoff in which she was to star.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2025

Weismann had surgically excised the tails of five generations of mice, then bred the mice to determine if the offspring would be born tailless.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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