excerpt
verb/ekˈsɜːpt/
/ekˈsɜːrpt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they excerpt | /ekˈsɜːpt/ /ekˈsɜːrpt/ |
| he / she / it excerpts | /ekˈsɜːpts/ /ekˈsɜːrpts/ |
| past simple excerpted | /ekˈsɜːptɪd/ /ekˈsɜːrptɪd/ |
| past participle excerpted | /ekˈsɜːptɪd/ /ekˈsɜːrptɪd/ |
| -ing form excerpting | /ekˈsɜːptɪŋ/ /ekˈsɜːrptɪŋ/ |
- excerpt something (from something) to take a short piece of writing, music, film, etc. from a longer whole
- The document was excerpted from an unidentified FBI file.
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