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removal
OXFORD DICTIONARY
removal, n.
1 the act or an instance of removing; the process of being removed.
2 the transfer of furniture and other contents on moving house.
1 the act or an instance of removing; the process of being removed.
2 the transfer of furniture and other contents on moving house.
THESAURUS
removal
Doppler effect, abandonment, ablation, abrasion, abstraction, alienation, amotion, amputation, anastomotic operation, assassination, avulsion, baring, bloodless operation, bloody murder, booting out, bumping-off, capital operation, cashiering, castaway, castoff, catharsis, cleaning out, cleansing, clearance, clearing, compensating operation, conge, corneal transplant, crescent operation, cutting out, decampment, deconsecration, deduction, deep six, defecation, defenestration, defrocking, deliverance, delocalization, denudation, departure, depletion, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivation, deracination, desquamation, detachment, dethronement, detrusion, disarrangement, disarticulation, disassociation, disbarment, disbarring, discard, discarding, discharge, discharging cargo, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, discrownment, disemployment, disengagement, disentanglement, disenthronement, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, dismissal, displacement, displacing, disposal, disposition, disunion, divestment, division, divorce, divorcement, drainage, draining, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, drumming out, dumping, egress, ejection, ejectment, elective operation, elimination, emergency operation, emotional release, emptying, enucleation, eradication, erosion, escape, evacuation, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, excommunication, excoriation, excretion, execution, exfoliation, exhausting, exhaustion, exhibitionism, exile, exit, exodus, expatriation, exploratory operation, exposure, expression, expulsion, exsection, extermination, extirpation, extraction, extrication, extrusion, fenestration operation, firing, flight, forced resignation, forced separation, forcible shift, foul play, freeing, furloughing, getaway, going, heart transplant, hegira, heterotopia, homicide, impeachment, incoherence, indecent exposure, intermission, interval operation, isolation, jettison, junking, kicking downstairs, kicking upstairs, kidney transplant, killing, laying bare, layoff, leaving, liquidation, luxation, major operation, manslaughter, massacre, mining, minor operation, move, movement, moving, murder, obtrusion, off-loading, operation, organ transplant, organ transplantation, ostracism, ouster, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow, overthrowal, palliative operation, parting, partition, passing, pensioning off, pink slip, pressing out, pulling, purgation, purge, purging, purification, quarrying, radical operation, red shift, refinement, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, release, relocation, remotion, removement, reprieve, resection, respite, retirement, retreat, riddance, ripping out, sacking, scrapping, section, segmentation, separation, separatism, severance, shift, shifting, slaughter, slaying, squeezing out, stripping, subdivision, subduction, sublation, subtraction, superannuation, surcease, surgical intervention, surgical operation, surgical technique, surplusing, suspension, taking away, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the knife, the sack, throwaway, throwing out, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism, ticket, transfer, transference, transferral, transplant, unchurching, uncovering, unfrocking, unhinging, unjointing, unloading, unrooting, unseating, uprooting, venting, voidance, voiding, walking papers, walkout, wasting, withdrawal, wresting out, zoningROGET THESAURUS
removal
Subtraction
N nonaddition, subtraction, subtraction, subduction, deduction, retrenchment, removal, withdrawal, ablation, sublation, abstraction, garbling mutilation, detruncation, amputation, abscission, excision, recision, curtailment, minuend, subtrahend, decrease, abrasion, subtracted, subtractive, in deduction, less, short of, minus, without, except, except for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and except, with a reservation, not counting, if one doesn't count.Displacement
N displacement, elocation, transposition, ejectment, exile, removal, misplacement, dislocation, fish out of water, displaced, unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished, unsettled, houseless, homeless, out of place, out of a situation, in the wrong place, misplaced, out of its element.Transference
N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.Departure
N departure, decession, decampment, embarkation, outset, start, removal, exit, exodus, hejira, flight, leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista, stirrup cup, valedictorian, starting point, starting post, point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation, port of embarkation, airport, take-off point, taxiing runway, runway, launching pad, spaceport, departing, valedictory, outward bound, whence, hence, thence, with a foot in the stirrup, on the wing, on the move, Int, begone!, farewell!, adieu!, goodbye!, good day!, au revoir!, fare you well!, God bless you!, God speed!, all aboard!, auf wiedersehen!, au plaisir de vous revoir!, bon voyage!, gluckliche Reise!, vive valeque!.Extraction
N extraction, extracting, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers, extracted.For further exploring for "removal" in Webster Dictionary Online