REMOVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does removal mean? 

• REMOVAL (noun)
  The noun REMOVAL has 2 senses:

1. the act of removing

2. dismissal from office

  Familiarity information: REMOVAL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMOVAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of removing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

remotion; removal

Context example:

he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy

Hypernyms ("removal" is a kind of...):

separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "removal"):

dislodgement; dislodgment (forced removal from a position of advantage)

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)

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)

remove (dispose of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dismissal from office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("removal" is a kind of...):

discharge; dismissal; dismission; firing; liberation; release; sack; sacking (the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "removal"):

purge (an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place)

Derivation:

remove (remove from a position or an office)

 Context examples 

Any microtubule process involving the removal of tubulin heterodimers from one or both ends of a microtubule.

(Microtubule Depolymerization Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Removal of fluid or tissue through a needle.

(Aspiration, NCI Dictionary)

Accordingly their removal was made together, and Anne was set down at Uppercross Cottage, in the first stage of Lady Russell's journey.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Surgical removal of part or all of the uterus via an abdominal approach.

(Abdominal Hysterectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Removal of tissue from the muscle, for microscopic examination.

(Muscle Biopsy, NCI Thesaurus)

Mrs. Norris's removal from Mansfield was the great supplementary comfort of Sir Thomas's life.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Removal of tissue from the kidney, for microscopic examination, using a needle.

(Needle Biopsy of Kidney, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical removal of excess skin and adipose tissue from the abdomen.

(Abdominal Panniculectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical removal of the vermiform appendix.

(Appendectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Removal of the spleen in the mice, however, didn’t have an effect, indicating that the vagus nerve influenced inflammation through a novel route that didn’t involve the spleen.

(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)