Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.
- 2noun
The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.
- 3noun
The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.
- 4noun
the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
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- 5noun
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
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- 6noun
surgical removal of a body part or tissue
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- 7noun
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"
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