1. (verb)excerpt, excerption, extract, selection a passage selected from a larger work Synonyms: survival, selection, pick, excerpt, choice, extract, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection, infusion
2. (verb)excerpt, extract, take out take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy Synonyms: extract, express, press out, take away, withdraw, draw out, draw off, remove, move out, get out, draw, omit, distill, unpack, invite out, exclude, evoke, leave out, pull, distil, educe, leave off, ask out, elicit, excerpt, pull out, except, take out, pull up, buy food
Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'excerpt'
English Synonyms and Antonyms
1. excerpt To quote is to give an author's words, either exactly, as in direct quotation, or in substance, as in indirect quotation; to cite is, etymologically, to call up a passage, as a witness is summone Synonyms: quote, cite, extract, plagiarize, repeat, excerpt, paraphrase, recite
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