excise
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Definitions
                    Noun
                    
                a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
                
                    Verb
                    
                remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
                
                    Verb
                    
                levy an excise tax on
                
                    Verb
                    
            remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"