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excise¹

  • /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/ UK, US

Rhymes with -aɪz

Where it comes from

From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

noun excises · excize

  1. countable, uncountable A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

    Similar: excise tax

verb excises · excising · excised · excize

  1. To impose an excise tax on something.

excise²

  • /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/ UK
  • /əkˈsaɪz/ UK
  • /əkˈsaɪz/ US

Where it comes from

From French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of excīdō (“cut out”), from ex (“out of, from”) + caedō (“cut”).

verb excises · excising · excised

  1. To cut out; to remove. Military censors have excised some details from the photographs for security reasons.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: excise tax, strike, expunge, tax, customs, taxation, excisable, consumer, duty, indirect, delete, dele, remove, cargo, sima, consumption

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verb to cut out, to remove

Deutschausschneiden, herausschneiden, exzidieren
Ελληνικάεκτέμνω ektémno
Русскийвырезать vyrezatʹ

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@misc{excise_2026,
  title = {excise},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/excise},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}