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REMOTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of removing
Example:
he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy
Synonyms:
remotion; removal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("remotion" is a kind of...):
separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remotion"):
withdrawal (the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.)
withdrawal (the act of taking out money or other capital)
skimming (the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid)
disembowelment; evisceration (the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude)
rinse; rinsing (the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing)
emptying; evacuation; voidance (the act of removing the contents of something)
elimination (the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations)
elimination; riddance (the act of removing or getting rid of something)
dislodgement; dislodgment (forced removal from a position of advantage)
dermabrasion (removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer)
baring; denudation; husking; stripping; uncovering (the removal of covering)
deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)
decontamination (the removal of contaminants)
autotomy (spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack)
extraction (the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force))
abstraction (the act of withdrawing or removing something)
abscission; cutting off (the act of cutting something off)
Derivation:
remove (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
