Synonyms for excise
ˈɛk saɪz, -saɪs; ɪkˈsaɪz

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1. excise, excise tax(verb)

   a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

   Synonyms:
   excise tax

2. strike, scratch, expunge, excise(verb)

   remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

   "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

   Synonyms:
   chance upon, itch, impinge on, hit, fret, attain, chance on, scrub, take, come up, fall upon, strike, rub, inscribe, move, assume, call off, collide with, coin, scrape up, cancel, fall, walk out, chafe, shine, affect, engrave, run into, scratch, happen upon, scratch up, come across, mint, strickle, impress, come to, scrape, expunge, come upon, light upon, take up, fray, discover, grave

3. excise(verb)

   levy an excise tax on

   Synonyms:
   scratch, expunge, strike

4. excise(verb)

   remove by cutting

   "The surgeon excised the tumor"

   Synonyms:
   scratch, expunge, strike

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1. excise(n.)

   Synonyms:
   inland duty, tax upon home products

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1. List of paraphrases for "excise":

   exciserespondent, excisable

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How to use excise in a sentence?

1. John Kirby:

   In so doing, they learned that a specific request was made to excise that portion of the briefing. We do not know who made the request to edit the video or why it was made.

2. Boris Johnson:

   Take out, excise, surgically remove the backstop, OK? thats the problem, thats the lobster pot, thats the trap that keeps us locked in the customs union and means we have this terrible Hobsons choice between, as it were, sacrificing Northern Ireland orremaining subject to the E.U. without having any say in the E.U.

3. Francis Marion:

   Well, now, this is exactly my case. I am in love; and my sweetheart is LIBERTY. Be that heavenly nymph my companion, and these wilds and .Woods shall have charms beyond London and Paris in slavery. To have no proud monarch driving over me with his gilt coaches; nor his host of excise-men and tax-gatherers insulting and robbing me ; but to be my own master, my own prince and sovereign, gloriously preserving my national dignity, and 'pursuing my true happiness; planting my vineyards, and eating their lucious fruits; and sowing my fields, and reaping the golden grain: and seeing millions of ‘brothers all around me, equally free and happy as myself. “This, sir, is What I long for.” p. 155 ... On his return to Georgetown, he was asked by colonel Watson, why he looked so serious? I have cause, sir,” said he, “to look serious.” Watson What! has general Marion refused to treat?” No, sir.” “Well, then, has old Washington defeated sir Henery Clinton, and broke up our army ? No, sir, not that neither ; but worse.” “Ah! what can be worse?” Why, sir, I have seen an American general and his officers, without pay, and almost without clothes, living on roots and drinking water ; and all for LIBERTY! What chance have we against such men!” It is said colonel Watson was not much obliged to him for this speech. But the young ofiicer was so struck with Marion’s sentiments, that he never rested until he threw up his commission, and retired from the service. ' p 156

4. Janice McGeachin:

   As I have traveled around the state and spoken with constituents and parents, it has become clear to me that this is one of the most significant threats facing our society today, we must find where these insidious theories and philosophies are lurking and excise them from our education system.

5. Budi Susanto Sadiman:

   An excise duty on plastic bags is useless.

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