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incide

/ɪnˈsaɪd/

incide verb: to separate and remove (something); to cut.

Verb

incide (third-person singular simple present incides, present participle inciding, simple past and past participle incided)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To separate and remove (something); to cut.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To resolve or break up (something), as by medicines.
    • [S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are deoppilating, others inciding, reſolving, diſcuſſing, ſuppurating, abſterſive of noxious adherences, and thickning the Blood and humors, being aſtringent, Anodinous or appeaſing paine &c.1671, Robert Boyle, “An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities. Chapter I.”, in Tracts […]. About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. […], London: […] W[illiam] H[all] for Ric[hard]...
    • [A]ll Saponaceous Substances, which incide the Mucus in the first Passages […]1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC

Forms of incide

third-person singular presentincides
present participleinciding
past participleincided
pastincided

Origin of incide

From Latin incīdere; prefix in- (“in”) + caedere (“to cut”). See concise, and compare incise.

Words that rhyme with incide

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Questions about incide

What does incide mean?
Incide means to separate and remove (something); to cut.
What part of speech is incide?
Incide is a verb.
How do you pronounce incide?
Incide is pronounced /ɪnˈsaɪd/.
What is the past tense of incide?
The past tense of incide is incided.

Words near incide in the dictionary

  1. inchwormed
  2. inchworming
  3. inchworms
  4. INCI
  5. incicurable
  6. incide
  7. incided
  8. incidence
  9. incidence function
  10. incidence functions
  11. incidence matrices

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