excision
英[?k's??(?)n;ek-]
美[?k's???n]
- n. 刪除，切除；切除之物
英英釋意
- 1. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage;
- "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"
- "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
- 2. surgical removal of a body part or tissue
- 3. 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
- 4. the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence