excision has definitions from the fields of medicine,surgery,writing
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[ noun ] the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence

Related terms

pull uproot

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[ noun ] the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church; cutting a person off from a religious society

Synonyms

excommunication

Related terms

banishment excommunicate

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[ noun ] (writing) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

Synonyms

cut deletion

Examples

"an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors" "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"

Related terms

editing strike

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