'Removal' definitions:
Definition of 'removal'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" [syn: removal, remotion]
noun
Dismissal from office
Definition of 'Removal'
From: GCIDE
- Removal \Re*mov"al\ (-al), n. The act of removing, or the state of being removed. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'removal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Doppler effect,
- 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,
- zoning