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Past tense of excise

regular verb

The past tense of excise is excised. The past participle is also excised.

Forms of excise

Base form (V1)excise /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
Past tense (V2)excised
Past participle (V3)excised
Present participleexcising
Third person singularexcises

Excised in a sentence

  • Military censors have excised some details from the photographs for security reasons.
  • Increased pyrophosphorylysis means that newly incorporated nucleotides, including potentially chain-terminating nucleotide analogues, are excised at a higher rate.2002, Advances in Virus Research - Volume 58, page 170. From the entry pyrophosphorylysis
  • The black stained lymph node to which a black stained lymphatic tract leads was considered as sentinel lymph node and excised along with perinodal fat.2015 August 22, “Sentinel Lymph Node Detection Using Carbon Nanoparticles in Patients with Early Breast Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry perinodal
  • Declaiming such practices, Baskaran writes: 'The flow of the film would not be affected in the least if song sequences were excised, wholly or partly'1996, Lalitha Gopalan, “Indian Cinema”, in Jill Nelmes, editor, An Introduction to Film Studies. From the entry declaim
  • Two weeks after the last injection, mice were anesthetized using a mixture of zoletil and rompun and 2 liver lobes were excised (equivalent to 50% hepatectomy).2015 September 1, “Long Term Liver Engraftment of Functional Hepatocytes Obtained from Germline Cell-Derived Pluripotent Stem Cells”, in…. From the entry zoletil

Meaning of excise

  1. noun A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
  2. verb To impose an excise tax on something.
  3. verb To cut out; to remove.

Full definition of excise

Questions about the past tense of excise

What is the past tense of excise?
The past tense of excise is excised.
What is the past participle of excise?
The past participle of excise is excised.
Is excise a regular or irregular verb?
Excise is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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