Learn English – term that means “surgically extract”
single-word-requests
Example sentence:
She decided to _ the tumor in her breasts.
Best Answer
The word is excise, and in BrE it's pronounced with the stress on the second syllable to distinguish it from tax (where it's a noun and stressed on the first syllable). The verb excise meaning tax is very rare, and the examples here would never be interpreted as "tax".
excise verb with object
Cut out surgically.
‘the precision with which surgeons can excise brain tumours’
‘excised tissue’
Best Answer
The word is excise, and in BrE it's pronounced with the stress on the second syllable to distinguish it from tax (where it's a noun and stressed on the first syllable). The verb excise meaning tax is very rare, and the examples here would never be interpreted as "tax".