Crossword-Solution: EXCISION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Excision | n. | The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction. |
| Excision | n. | The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication. |
| Excision | n. | The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “EXCISION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CUTTING out of a part | 1 answer |
| surgery | 4 answers |
| Cutting out | 6 answers |
| GETTING the boot | 45 answers |
| removal | 57 answers |
| CUT ___ | 133 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
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greedy person
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Sentences with EXCISION (5)
Bernard felt that he had made the necessary excision when, at the end of the month, he wrote to Gordon Wright of his engagement.
Bateman describes the death of one of the twins and its excision from the other, who died subsequently, evidently of septic infection.
When the genuine spirit of liberty animates the body of a people to a thorough examination of their affairs, it leads to the excision of every excrescence which may have fastened itself upon any of the departments of the government, and restores the system to its pristine health and beauty.
The Ainos say that if a man is accidentally wounded by a poisoned arrow the only cure is immediate excision of the part.
Originally written for newspaper publication, many of the articles referred to events of the day, the interest of which has now passed away, and contained local allusions, which the general reader would fail to understand; in such cases excision became imperative.
Quotes with EXCISION (3)
How strange that excision — female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation — of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed on little boys. Consensus on the point seems absolute. But ask your interlocutor to think about the validity of this surgical procedure, which consists of removing a healthy part of a nonconsenting child’s body on nonmedical grounds — the legal definition of… mutilation.
It is always difficult to make the transition to a modern world. I moved from the world of faith to the world of reason - from the world of excision and forced marriage to the world of secual emancipation. Having made that journey, I know that one of those worlds is simply better than the other. Not because of its flashy gadgets, but fundamentally, because of its values. The message of this book, if it must have a message, is that we in the West would be wrong to prolong the …
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.