Exscind means to cut off or out, to excise. The word comes from Latin and literally means "to cut out."
Exscind bedeutet, etwas abzutrennen oder auszuschneiden, zu exzisieren. Das Wort stammt aus dem Lateinischen und bedeutet wörtlich "herausschneiden".
| Front | exscind \ek-ˈsind\ |
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| Back | transitive verb To cut off or out; excise. [From Latin exscindere, from ex- (out) + scindere (to cut). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us excise, schism, ski, shin, scienter, and adscititious. Earliest documented use: 1662.] "The knife skipped off the stone and almost exscinded Shih Te's index finger." - Alexander Goldstein; The Foundling; Trafford; 2009. |
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