excise vs cancel

excise and cancel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
excise	Yes	No	Yes	No
cancel	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, cancel is a hypernym of excise; that is, cancel is a word with a broader meaning than excise:

Other hypernyms of excise include delete.

excise (noun)	cancel (noun)
a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)	a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

excise (verb)	cancel (verb)
remove by cutting	make invalid for use
remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line	remove or make invisible
levy an excise tax on	declare null and void; make ineffective
	postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
	make up for