removal

n

1. taking off, shedding, casting off, throwing off, dropping; throwing overboard, jettison; divestiture, stripping, uncovering, exposing, baring; undressing, unclothing, undraping, disrobing; exfoliation, Pathol. desquamation, peeling off, flaking.

2. disengagement, disentanglement, disburdenment, dissociation, disconnection, unattachment, extrication; disuniting, unbinding, unfastening, untying, undoing, unchaining; detaching, disjoining, uncoupling, loosening, unloosening; dismantling, stripping, tearing off.

3. subtraction, deduction, withdrawal, abstraction, Rare. prescission; taking away, rebating, drawing away; lessening, diminishing, shortening, curtailment; excision, cutting off, lopping off, chopping off, cutting out or away, Surg. ablation; amputation, Surg. resection, truncation, detruncation, obtruncation.

4. uprooting, unrooting, pulling out by the roots, pulling up, plucking up, rooting out, deracination; pulling out, drawing out, taking out, raising up or out, extraction; unearthing, excavation, digging up or out, grubbing up or out; weeding out, raking out; drawing forth, bringing out, evocation, education, elicitation.

5. erasure, erasion, cancellation, rubbing out, scrubbing out, scratching out; washing out, sponging out, purging, deterging; deletion, Print. dele, editing, editing out; crossing out, blacking out.

6. eradication, extirpation, extermination, annihilation; expunction, obliteration, extinguishment, extinction, effacement, abolition, abolishment; blotting out, striking out, stamping out, crushing out, wiping out.

7. killing, killing off, slaying, slaughter, execution, destruction; murder, finishing off, Sl. doing in, Sl. zapping, disposing of; assassination, sacrifice, getting rid of, mowing down, putting out of the way, doing away with; massacre, liquidation, decimation.

8. nullification, neutralization, counterpoise, counterbalance, counteraction; offsetting, obviation, prevention, prohibition, deterrent, deterrence, preclusion; cancellation, discharge, negation, invalidation, Logic. sublation, disaffirmation.

9. transfer, transferal, transference, transportation, displacement, dislocation, transplantation; translocation, relocation, transshipment, evacuation; seclusion, retreat, retirement.

10. banishment, relegation, sequestration, exile, expatriation, proscription, deportation, excommunication; expelling, ejecting, ejaculating, emitting; casting out, forcing out, dislodgement, eviction, ouster, dispossession; driving out, thrusting out, extrusion, throwing out, Sl. bouncing; exclusion, omission, exception, barring, debarment, ostracism, blackballing; segregation, separation, division, isolation, insulation; disowning, repudiation, renunciation, renouncement, divorce.

11. deposition, deposal, ouster, unseating, dethronement, discrownment, unfrocking; dismissal, discharge, laying off, letting go.