excise
/ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
noun
- A tax on certain goods produced or sold within a country, such as alcohol, tobacco, or fuel.
- The price of beer includes a federal excise that goes to the treasury.
- The government raised the excise on cigarettes to discourage smoking.
- Many countries apply an excise to gasoline to fund road maintenance.
verb
- To remove something by cutting it out, especially in surgery.
- The surgeon will excise the tumor to prevent it from spreading.
- The dentist excised the infected part of the gum.
- They had to excise the damaged tissue from the wound.
- To remove or delete something from a text, document, or record.
- The censor excised all references to the protest from the report.
- Please excise any personal information before sharing the file.
- The editor decided to excise several paragraphs from the article.