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 ²( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of excised¹

excise ²( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Like Fosse did with Cabaret, Marshall excised two major characters: the Narrator and the Mysterious Man.

From The Daily Beast

And should a silly, sometimes slight comedy like Veep be excised to include yet another harrowing drama, Rectify?

From The Daily Beast

Scott's film is less contemplative and more grounded than McCarthy's script, with most of the philosophical digressions excised.

From The Daily Beast

That demeaning blind quote has since been excised from the online version of the article.

From The Daily Beast

Both writers include explicit sex scenes in their novels, the kind that would normally be excised from modern romance fiction.

From The Daily Beast

At such an assembly, or at a preliminary council of Chiefs, he would assuredly speak of his Dream, as he does in the part excised.

From Project Gutenberg

He considers them hopeless unless they can be excised at a very early stage and the incision followed by caustics.

From Project Gutenberg

Whatever survival of the past stifles it should be quickly excised and suppressed.

From Project Gutenberg

If the condition has arisen, the pseudo-sac should be excised.

From Project Gutenberg

The protruding mass may then be cleanly excised by means of a scalpel.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• detached
• evacuated