INCISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incise mean? 

• INCISE (verb)
  The verb INCISE has 1 sense:

1. make an incision into by carving or cutting

  Familiarity information: INCISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they incise    ... he / she / it incises   
Past simple: incised   
Past participle: incised   
-ing form: incising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make an incision into by carving or cutting

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "incise"):

notch (cut or make a notch into)

scrape; scratch; scratch up (cut the surface of; wear away the surface of)

groove (make a groove in, or provide with a groove)

slit (cut a slit into)

worry (lacerate by biting)

deaden; girdle (cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

incision (the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation))

incision (a depression scratched or carved into a surface)

incisive (suitable for cutting or piercing)

incisure ((anatomy) a notch or small hollow)

 Context examples 

Subsequently, an AP endonuclease or AP lyase activity incises the abasic site, followed by short-patch gap-filling, excision of the base-free sugar-phosphate residue, and ligation.

(Base Excision Repair, NCI Thesaurus)

“Is it not possible,” I suggested, “that the incised wound upon Straker may have been caused by his own knife in the convulsive struggles which follow any brain injury?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)