exscind means to cut out.
exscind is pronounced /ɛk(s)ˈsɪnd/.
Why “exscind” is a great word
To cut out or off, or to destroy utterly; to extirpate. A learned borrowing from Latin exscindō ("demolish, destroy"), from ex- ("out") + scindere ("to cut, split, tear"). Unlike "excise," which suggests surgical precision for a curative end, or "rescind," which annuls an abstract contract, to exscind is to perform a violent, definitive amputation. It is the surgeon’s blade turned vengeful, the lightning-struck limb torn from the oak, the heresy burned from the book and memory—a final, brutal act of unmaking where absence becomes the only monument to what was.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin exscindō (“demolish, destroy”), originally in the sense “to destroy utterly”.
verb
- To cut out.e.g.“It should be mentioned that matter which has became^([sic]) untrue by the progress of events since the first edition of this book has been carefully exscinded.”
- To destroy utterly, to extirpate.
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