释义 |
exciseex‧cise2 /ɪkˈsaɪz/ verb [transitive] excise2Origin: 1500-1600 Latin past participle of excidere ‘to cut out’, from caedere ‘to cut’ VERB TABLEexcise |
Present | I, you, we, they | excise | | he, she, it | excises | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | excised | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have excised | | he, she, it | has excised | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had excised | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will excise | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have excised |
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Present | I | am excising | | he, she, it | is excising | | you, we, they | are excising | Past | I, he, she, it | was excising | | you, we, they | were excising | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been excising | | he, she, it | has been excising | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been excising | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be excising | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been excising |
- Offensive scenes were excised from the film.
- C, the petiole of the cotyledon was chilled as in B, and the cotyledon was then excised.
- From the point of view of the present, the past has to be excised.
- It was as if the operation had excised her will to live.
- Now he could no more excise it from his brain cells than he could sever his past from his future.
- That homosexuality has been excised as an official disease state is certainly good news.
- The audio is livelier than the hard-copy edition, which is so slim that little was excised for the audio presentation.
- The television age has transformed the conventions into presentational exercises from which the unknown and unexpected are ruthlessly excised.
- Therefore, to excise it would not imply any reversal of Britain's opt-out.
formal to remove or get rid of something, especially by cutting it out: The tumour was excised.—excision /ɪkˈsɪʒən/ noun [countable, uncountable] |