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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Backward motion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences, zoology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Removal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, especially, uncountable
Qualifier: largely obsolete
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the act of removing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: removal
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: separation
Narrower terms: abscission, cutting off, abstraction, extraction, autotomy, decontamination, deletion, denudation, stripping, uncovering, baring, husking, dermabrasion, dislodgment, dislodgement, elimination, riddance, emptying, voidance, evacuation, rinse, rinsing, disembowelment, evisceration, skimming, withdrawal
History
From Old French or directly from Latin remōtiō.
