Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)excise, excise taxa tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate) Verbs
(v)strike, scratch, expunge, exciseremove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line“Please strike this remark from the record”,
“scratch that remark” (v)exciselevy an excise tax on (v)exciseremove by cutting“The surgeon excised the tumor” 