excide

American

[ik-sahyd] / ɪkˈsaɪd /

verb (used with object)

excided, exciding

to cut out; excise.

excide British

/ ɪkˈsaɪd /

verb

rare (tr) to cut out; excise

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Etymology

Origin of excide

1750–60; < Latin excīdere to cut out, equivalent to ex- ex- ¹ + -cīdere (combining form of caedere to cut)

Example Sentences

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Excide, ek-sid′, v.t. to cut off.

From Project Gutenberg

"Same time tha'z good to be induztriouz"--this was all said directly above the moaning child--"while tha'z bad, for the sick, to talk ad the bedside, and we can't stay with you and not talk, and we can't go in that front yard; that gate is let open so the doctor he needn' ring and that way excide the patient; and we can't go in the back garden"--they spread their hands and dropped them; the back garden was hopelessly pre-empted.

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