Synonyms of the word

extirpation

• n. The act of extirpating or uprooting.

ablation

• n. (obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal.
• n. (medicine) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ…
• n. (sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as vaporization under…
• n. (geology) The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of…

deracination

• n. The act of deracinating; uprooting.

excision

• n. The deletion of some text during editing.
• n. (surgery) The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting.
• n. (genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
• n. (topology) The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is…

operation

• n. The method by which a device performs its function.
• n. The method or practice by which actions are done.
• n. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• n. A planned undertaking.
• n. A business or organization.
• n. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
• n. (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the…
• n. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
• n. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

pulling

• v. present participle of pull.
• n. The act by which something is pulled.

surgery

• n. (medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
• n. (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
• n. A room or department where surgery is performed.
• n. (Britain) A doctor's office.
• n. (Britain) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly…
• n. (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
• n. (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding…