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excision   (TTS Sound)

The noun excision has 4 senses

• deletion, excision, cut -- (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")


• ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision -- (surgical removal of a body part or tissue)


• excommunication, excision -- (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)


• extirpation, excision, deracination -- (the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence)