excised

[ik-sahyzd, ek-sahyzd]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of excised¹

excise ² ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

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

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Some of the writers of the articles either excised the phrase “minimizing its ideological threat” or seemed to pretend it didn’t exist.

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Enrollees who didn’t meet the requirement for three months were summarily excised from Medicaid and couldn’t reenroll until the following year.

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In particular, they excised all allegations related to Trump’s interactions with the Department of Justice.

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"Without functional ARID1A, loose DNA can be excised and escape into the cytosol, which activates a coincidentally desirable antiviral immune response that can be further enhanced by immune checkpoint blockade."

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