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excide

excide verb: to cut off.

Verb

excide (third-person singular simple present excides, present participle exciding, simple past and past participle excided)

  1. (dated, transitive, usually) To cut off.

Forms of excide

third-person singular presentexcides
present participleexciding
past participleexcided
pastexcided

Origin of excide

From Latin excidere, excisum; ex (“out”) + caedere (“to cut”). See concise, and compare excise (“to cut off”).

Questions about excide

What does excide mean?
Excide means to cut off.
What part of speech is excide?
Excide is a verb.
What is the past tense of excide?
The past tense of excide is excided.

Words near excide in the dictionary

  1. exchequered
  2. exchequering
  3. exchequers
  4. exchequership
  5. Exciban
  6. excide
  7. excided
  8. excides
  9. exciding
  10. Excies
  11. excilamp

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