excision

excision is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.
2. noun. The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.
3. noun. The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.
4. noun. the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence

   Synonyms: deracination, extirpation

5. noun. the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society

   Synonyms: excommunication

6. noun. surgical removal of a body part or tissue

   Synonyms: ablation, extirpation

7. noun. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

   "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"

   "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"

   Synonyms: cut, deletion

Synonyms

deracination, extirpation, excommunication, ablation, cut, deletion

Common word forms

excisions, excisional

Words from these letters

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