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. )

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Feb. 22, 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

The studio version, too, has been excised from the set’s remix of “Some Time in New York City.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 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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