excise

Plural: excises

Noun

a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).

Verb

Verb Forms: excised, excising, excises

To cut out or remove completely.
remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
levy an excise tax on
remove by cutting
- "The surgeon excised the tumor"
To impose an excise tax on something.
To cut out; to remove.

Examples

She had to EXCIDE the ’Q’ from her potential words, having no ’U’ to pair it with.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

excise tax, expunge, scratch, strike

Scrabble Score: 15

excise: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
excise: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
excise: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

excise: valid Words With Friends Word