noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK, US:/ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
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rhymes with -aɪz
UK:/ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
UK:/əkˈsaɪz/
US:/əkˈsaɪz/
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CMU ARPABET:EH0 K S AY1 S
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 2:EH1 K S AY0 Z
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise", A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.
1787, Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8, The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts [...] of the United States;
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
verb
Meaning 2
To impose an excise tax on something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
verb
Meaning 3
To cut out; to remove.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
1901, Andrew Lang, Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion, In revising the book I [...] have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
Please strike this remark from the record
scratch that remark
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: strike, scratch, expunge
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: delete, cancel
7
verb
Meaning 7
levy an excise tax on
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tax
History
Etymology
From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).
From French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of excīdō (“cut out”), from ex (“out of, from”) + caedō (“cut”).
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
изрязвам
(izrjazvam)
— to cut out, to remove
Czech:
vyříznout
— to cut out, to remove
Czech:
(vy)preparovat
— to cut out, to remove
Danish:
bortskære
— to cut out, to remove
Finnish:
leikata
— to cut out, to remove
Finnish:
poistaa
— to cut out, to remove
Galician:
esguizar
— to cut out, to remove
German:
ausschneiden
— to cut out, to remove
German:
herausschneiden
— to cut out, to remove
German:
exzidieren
— to cut out, to remove
Greek:
εκτέμνω
(ektémno)
— to cut out, to remove
Russian:
вырезать
(vyrezatʹ)
— to cut out, to remove
Ukrainian:
вирі́зувати
(vyrízuvaty)
— to cut out, to remove
Ukrainian:
виріза́ти
(vyrizáty)
— to cut out, to remove
Ukrainian:
ви́різати
(výrizaty)
— to cut out, to remove
