EXCISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excise mean? 

• EXCISE (noun)
  The noun EXCISE has 1 sense:

1. a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

  Familiarity information: EXCISE used as a noun is very rare.

• EXCISE (verb)
  The verb EXCISE has 3 senses:

1. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

2. levy an excise tax on

3. remove by cutting

  Familiarity information: EXCISE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

excise; excise tax

Hypernyms ("excise" is a kind of...):

indirect tax (a tax levied on goods or services rather than on persons or organizations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excise"):

nuisance tax; sales tax (a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer)

ad valorem tax; value-added tax; VAT (a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production)

gasoline tax (a tax on every gallon of gasoline sold)

Derivation:

excise (levy an excise tax on)

• EXCISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they excise    ... he / she / it excises   
Past simple: excised   
Past participle: excised   
-ing form: excising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

excise; expunge; scratch; strike

Context example:

scratch that remark

Hypernyms (to "excise" is one way to...):

cancel; delete (remove or make invisible)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

excision (the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Levy an excise tax on

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "excise" is one way to...):

tax (levy a tax on)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

excise (a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remove by cutting

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The surgeon excised the tumor

Hypernyms (to "excise" is one way to...):

cut out (delete or remove)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

excision (surgical removal of a body part or tissue)

 Context examples 

An indication that a surgical margin is in close proximity to the excised tumor.

(Narrow Surgical Margin, NCI Thesaurus)

It may recur if it is not completely excised.

(Balloon Cell Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)

The distance between the radial extent of the tumor and the surgical incision used to excise the tumor.

(Circumferential Resection Margin, NCI Thesaurus)

Indicates the absence of tumor cells at the edge of a surgically excised specimen.

(Negative Surgical Margin, NCI Thesaurus)

Discrete segments of DNA which can excise and reintegrate to another site in the genome.

(DNA Insertion Elements, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)