Remotion (original) (raw)

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)

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