English > removal: 2 senses > noun 1, act| Meaning | The act of removing. |
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| Example | "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" |
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| Synonym | remotion |
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| Narrower | abscission, cutting off | The act of cutting something off |
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| abstraction | The act of withdrawing or removing something |
| 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 |
| decontamination | The removal of contaminants |
| deletion | The act of deleting something written or printed |
| denudation, stripping, uncovering, baring, husking | The removal of covering / covering |
| dermabrasion | removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer |
| disembowelment, evisceration | The act of removing the bowels or viscera |
| dislodgment, dislodgement | forced removal from a position of advantage |
| elimination, riddance | The act of removing or getting rid of something |
| elimination | The act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations |
| emptying, voidance, evacuation | The act of removing the contents of something |
| extraction | The action of taking out something (especially using effort or force) |
| rinse, rinsing | The removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing |
| skimming | The act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid / liquid |
| withdrawal | The act of taking out money or other capital |
| withdrawal | The act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc. |
| Broader | separation | The act of dividing or disconnecting |
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| Spanish | eliminación, remoción |
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| Catalan | eliminació, extracció |
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| Verbs | remove | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
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| remove | dispose of |
