excise

Noun

• a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

Verb

• remove by cutting
  • The surgeon excised the tumor
    

• levy an excise tax on

• remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
  • Please strike this remark from the record
    
  • scratch that remark
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  excise tax , strike , scratch , expunge