Excise in a sentence as a noun

It's more like an excise tax on goods produced.

I wouldn't recommend doing this, and I plan to excise this nasty hack at some point.

Chrome is generally not about maximizing user choice/control, so from their POV maybe it made more sense to excise the old code.

I've witnessed several exchanges on the mailing list where the developers attempt to excise language features.

Excise in a sentence as a verb

Things we bring in less revenue from: 35th in lottery revenue per capita, 32nd in cigarette tax rate, 41st in excise taxes per capita.

They did this by breaking the MD5 algorithm, and it caused the community to finally excise the last of the MD5 certificates for SHA1 certificates.

At 32, I would have hoped to excise the latent misogyny and distrust of former jocks that my adolescent experiences burned into me, but it has not abated.

For example, consider a Forth word which determines whether a number is divisible by three or five: : fizzbuzzable dup 3 mod 0= swap 5 mod 0= or ;\n\nThere's a repeated pattern here, so we can textually excise it and make it into a named word without changing any of the structure of the surrounding program: : /?

Excise definitions

noun

a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

verb

remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

See also: strike scratch expunge

verb

levy an excise tax on

verb

remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"