excise

UK/ˈɛkˌsaɪz//əkˈsaɪz/

excise noun: a tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).

Noun

excise (countable and uncountable, plural excises)

A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
- Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- 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.1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise"
Synonyms:

excise tax

Verb (1)

excise (third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)

To impose an excise tax on something.

Verb (2)

excise (third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)

To cut out; to remove.
- Military censors have excised some details from the photographs for security reasons.
- [T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, and excised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver.1846, William Youatt, The Dog

excise meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

excise in Tamil

ஆயத் துறை, ஆயம், உல்கு, உள்நாட்டுப் பொருள் வரி, தீர்வை, ஆயத்திரை

excise in Bengali

আবগারি শুল্ক

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excise in Telugu: ఎక్సైజ్
excise in Malayalam: ചുങ്കം, തീരുവ
excise in Kannada: ಜಕಾತಿ jakāti
excise in Punjabi: ਐਕਸਾਈਜ਼, ਆਬਕਾਰੀ, ਐਕਸਾਈਜ਼ ਤੱਕ
excise in Gujarati: એક્સાઈઝ, એક્સાઇઝ
excise in Odia: ଏକ୍ସାଇଜ୍
excise in Nepali: आबकारी

Examples of excise in a sentence

Personality disorders are so inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them.1987, Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices, page 442:
A person is guilty of an offence if he excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any part of a girl’s labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.2003, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1(1)”, in Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, →ISBN, page 14:

All 12 example sentences with excise

Synonyms of excise

excise tax

Forms of excise

Noun
plural	excises
alternative form	excize
Verb
third-person singular present	excises
present participle	excising
past participle	excised
past	excised

Past tense of excise: excised

Plural of excise: excises

Origin of excise

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”).

Words formed from excise

Phrases with excise

Words that rhyme with excise

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Questions about excise

What does excise mean?: Excise means a tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
What is excise in Hindi?: Excise in Hindi is आबकारी (ābkārī). See Excise meaning in Hindi.
How do you use excise in a sentence?: Personality disorders are so inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them.
What part of speech is excise?: Excise can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce excise?: Excise is pronounced /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/ (UK).
What is the plural of excise?: The plural of excise is excises.

Words near excise in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: excise (page history and authors); आबकारी (Hindi) (page history and authors); excise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); excise (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Excise (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); excise (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); excise (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಜಕಾತಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); excise (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); excise (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); excise (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); excise (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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