Hyphenation of excise

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word excise? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

ex-cise

Definitions of excise:

1.	A tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
2.	Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line Please strike this remark from the record Scratch that remark
3.	Levy an excise tax on
4.	Remove by cutting The surgeon excised the tumor

Synonyms of excise:

noun	excise tax, indirect tax
verb	strike, expunge, delete, cancel
verb	tax
verb	cut out

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.