Synonyms for
Excise
Definition
to remove by cutting out
Synonyms & similar words
Synonyms by register
Antonyms
Common collocations
- excise tumor
- excise tissue
- excise a passage
- excise a section
- excise a part
- excise from the budget
Word family
Usage note
Primarily used in a medical context for surgical removal or in a literary/editorial context for removing text. Avoid using it for general removal of items.
Example sentences
- The dentist had to excise the patient's tooth.
- The chef had to excise the burnt part of the food.
- The editor had to excise a paragraph from the article.
- The government had to excise a section from the law.
- The artist had to excise a portion of the painting.
Quotes
Money is not a fund of value, it's a current medium of exchange. You can't use it to store value, except to the extent that other people think it will be exchangeable in the future. So any interest rate that's lower than the inflation rate is a tax, an excise tax on holding money.
The excise is a hateful tax, levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
An excise is frequently an invisible tax, because the merchant who advances it is not always the person who finally pays it.