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.

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verb

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

Etymology

Origin of excised

excise ² ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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excised

As for why some material was excised, the reasons vary.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026

Ms. McCracken has now collected the 280 excised notes and compiled them into a sometimes useful, always charming book roughly equal in length to the original novel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

There’s also a post-credits “Fortnite”-style cartoon of an earlier excised character, Gogo Yubari’s sister Yuki, who Tarantino was right to delete the first time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

These excised lines from the Farewell Address serve not only as a warning but as a prescient prophecy of the political turmoil and factionalism that would later shape the nation’s history.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 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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