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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

-cise-, root.

-cise- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "cut (down). '' It is related to -cide-². This meaning is found in such words as: circumcise, decisive, incision, incisive, incisor, precise, scissors.

'-cise-' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

Graecize - dancercise - francize

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