excise

UK: 'Excise': /ɛkˈsaɪz/; 'excise': noun: /ɛkˈsaɪz/, verb: /ɪkˈsaɪz/

US: /ˈɛksaɪz/

US: (n. ek′sīz, -sīs; v. ek′sīz, ik sīz′)

Inflections of 'excise' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

excises

v 3rd person singular

excising

v pres p

excised

v past

excised

v past p

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

ex•cise¹ /ˈɛksaɪz/   n. [uncountable]

1. Business an internal tax on certain products or goods placed on their manufacture, sale, or use within the country.

See -cise-.
ex•cise² /ɪkˈsaɪz/   v. [~ + object] , -cised, -cis•ing. 

1. Surgery to remove by or as if by cutting out or off:
   The surgeons excised the tumor.

See -cise-.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

ex•cise¹  (n. ek′sīz, -sīs;v. ek′sīz, ik sīz′), n., v., -cised, -cising. 
n. 

1. Business an internal tax or duty on certain commodities, as liquor or tobacco, levied on their manufacture, sale, or consumption within the country.
2. Business a tax levied for a license to carry on certain employments, pursue certain sports, etc.
3. Business, Government [Brit.] the branch of the civil service that collects excise taxes.

v.t. 

4. Business to impose an excise on.

• Medieval Latin accīsa tax, literally, a cut, noun, nominal use of feminine past participle of Latin accīdere to cut into, equivalent. to ac- ac- + cīd-, variant stem of caedere to cut + -ta feminine past participle suffix, with dt s
• Middle Dutch excijs, variant of accijs
• apparently 1485–95

ex•cise²  (ik sīz′), v.t., -cised, -cis•ing. 

1. to expunge, as a passage or sentence, from a text.
2. Surgery to cut out or off, as a tumor.

• Latin excīsus cut out, hewn down, past participle of excīdere to excide
• 1570–80

ex•cis′a•ble, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

excise noun / ˈɛksaɪz ɛkˈsaɪz/

1. Also called: excise tax a tax on goods, such as spirits, produced for the home market
2. a tax paid for a licence to carry out various trades, sports, etc
3. that section of the government service responsible for the collection of excise, now part of HMRC

Etymology: 15th Century: probably from Middle Dutch excijs, probably from Old French assise a sitting, assessment, from Latin assidēre to sit beside, assist in judging, from sedēre to sit

excise / ɪkˈsaɪz/ verb (transitive)

1. to delete (a passage, sentence, etc); expunge
2. to remove (an organ, structure, or part) surgically

Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin excīdere to cut down; see excide

excision / ɪkˈsɪʒən/ noun