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

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

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

Washington’s analysis in this excised section pivots to a cautious optimism about large republics—at a time when the United States territory extended only to the Mississippi River.

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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