excising

Definitions

The act of cutting out or removing surgically.

The process of deleting or extracting a section from a text, film, or other work.

Examples

The surgeon focused on excising the damaged tissue while preserving the surrounding nerves.

The editor spent the afternoon excising unnecessary adjectives from the manuscript to improve its flow.

Synonyms

removing cutting out deleting extracting expunging omitting erasing

Antonyms

inserting adding including retaining keeping incorporating appending