removal

/rɪˈmuvəl/

/rəˈmuvəl/

Other forms: removals

The word removal is the noun version of the verb to remove. When you "re-move" a sofa, you move it again by getting rid of it. You've seen to its removal.

Carpet removal is the specialty of companies that come and take your old rugs away. When someone is asked to step down from a job or position, it's referred to as their removal. And why not? Why is a city council member's removal from office any different from a drunken idiot's removal from a nightclub? Congratulations! You've overseen the removal of the hated chairman of the board. Now we can install a new, truly lovable one in his place.

Definitions of removal

1. noun

   the act of removing
   “he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy”

   synonyms: remotion

   types:

   abscission, cutting off

   the act of cutting something off

   abstraction

   the act of withdrawing or removing something

   extraction

   the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)

   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

   baring, denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering

   the removal of covering

   dermabrasion

   removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer

   dislodgement, dislodgment

   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, evacuation, voidance

   the act of removing the contents of something

   rinse, rinsing

   the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing

   disembowelment, evisceration

   the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude

   skimming

   the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid

   withdrawal

   the act of taking out money or other capital

   withdrawal

   the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.

   circumcision

   the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males

   drain, drainage

   emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it

   bank withdrawal

   the withdrawal of money from your account at a bank

   disinvestment

   the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation

   castration, expurgation

   the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work

   censoring, censorship

   deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances

   erasure, expunction, expunging

   deletion by an act of expunging or erasing

   simplification

   elimination of superfluous details

   deforestation, disforestation

   the removal of trees

   cornhusking

   the act of removing the husks from ears of corn

   type of:

   separation

   the act of dividing or disconnecting
2. noun

   dismissal from office
   types:

   purge

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

   type of:

   discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, heave-ho, liberation, release, sack, sacking

   the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)