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excerpted

excerpted is the simple past and past participle of excerpt.

Meaning of excerpt

Verb

excerpt (third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted)

  1. (transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
    • out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey

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Adjective

excerpted (not comparable)

  1. Consisting of excerpts.

Words formed from excerpted

Questions about excerpted

What does excerpted mean?
Excerpted means consisting of excerpts.
What is excerpted the simple past and past participle of?
Excerpted is the simple past and past participle of excerpt.
What part of speech is excerpted?
Excerpted is an adjective.

Words near excerpted in the dictionary

  1. excerping
  2. excerps
  3. excerpt
  4. excerpt from police record
  5. excerpta
  6. excerpted
  7. excerpter
  8. excerpters
  9. excerptible
  10. excerpting
  11. excerptings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excerpted (page history and authors); excerpt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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