excising
Surgically taking away
Excising is the act of cutting something out or removing it entirely.
Surgeons excise tumors; editors excise passages from manuscripts.
The word implies deliberate, often precise removal: The committee excised all references to the scandal from the official record.
The noun form is excision.
Act of taking away
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- tumorAbnormal tissue mass
- biopsyTissue sample for diagnosis
- lesionArea of pathological change
scalpel · dissection · extraction · ablation · margin · tissue · operating · specimen
Removing from existence
- removingTaking something out
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- redactingObscuring text for secrecy
- omittingFailing to include
trimming · striking · censoring · expunging · eliminating · purging · editing · manuscript
removal
Act of taking away
lesion · scalpel · dissection · extraction · ablation · margin · tissue · operating · specimen · wound
deleting
Removing from existence
omitting · trimming · striking · censoring · expunging · eliminating · purging · editing · manuscript · passage
eliminating
Removing from consideration
- eradicatingRemoving completely and permanently
- purgingForcible elimination of unwanted
- removingTaking something out
expelling · banishing · extracting · weeding · cleansing · ridding · stripping · severing · detaching · separating
- cutting outtrimming, clipping, cropping, pruning, snipping
- breaking downsplitting, fragmenting, dividing, breaking up, partitioning
- separatingseparating, detaching, disconnecting, dividing, splitting
excisinginserting
Placing within something
adding · implanting · incorporating · introducing · grafting
excisingpreserving
Protecting from deterioration
retaining · keeping · conserving · maintaining · saving
excisingincluding
Containing as part
restoring · reinstating · reincorporating · putting back · replacing
- tumor excisionSurgical removal of abnormal growth