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excise

English

  1. 🔊 a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
  2. 🔊 remove by cutting
    “The surgeon excised the tumor”
  3. 🔊 levy an excise tax on
  4. 🔊 remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
    “Please strike this remark from the record”

Similar words

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