How to pronounce excise
American English pronunciation
ik-SYZE
- IPA
- /ɪkˈsaɪz/
- Syllables
- ik · SYZE (2 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What excise means
To cut something out and take it away
In a sentence: The editor excised two boring pages from the middle of the story.
Where it comes from: This verb comes from the Latin excisus, meaning cut out. A different word with the same spelling, meaning a kind of tax, came from an old Dutch word.
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