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

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excised

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

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026

This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 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

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

If gemmules existed, then a mouse with a surgically excised tail should produce a mouse without a tail.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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