Removal
[rɪ'muːv(ə)l] or [rɪ'muvl]
Definition
(noun.) dismissal from office.
(noun.) the act of removing; 'he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy'.
Editor: Timmy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
Checker: Wyatt
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Displacement, remove, dislodgement, tranference, relegation, change of place.[2]. Withdrawal, elimination, extrication, extraction.[3]. Destruction, suppression, abatement.[4]. Dismission, ejection.
Edited by Clifford
Examples
- Some knowledge of anatomy was involved in the removal of the viscera, and much more in a particular method they followed in removing the brain. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As the lid is closed, the picture becomes darkened, and by the gradual removal of the screen at the same time, it is changed into a transparency. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land, and the wages of labour, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They quitted it only with the removal of the tea-things. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- On the 13th I sent orders to have these sunk as high up the river as we could guard them, and prevent their removal by the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The former are the foundation of all our thoughts and actions, so that upon their removal human nature must immediately perish and go to ruin. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Such, in fact, was the success of the new method that the city compelled at length the removal of all telegraph poles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Scott claimed that they had demanded of the President his removal. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They had not been near enough to the river to hear the plunge, but they saw the removal of the carriage lamp, and watched its motion into the mead. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These permit of the removal and replacement of any one section that may become defective, and are also capable of being built up section by section to any size needed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The removal of the dike by a discharge of forty tons of dynamite, set off by President Wilson, from Washington, was the last stage in the completion of the great waterway. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The removal of either of these destroys the passion; which evidently proves that the cause Is a compounded one. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It is not every removal in time, which has the effect of producing veneration and esteem. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The removal of furniture had been accomplished only that day, though Clym had lived in the old house for more than a week. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My sister, I am sure, will not hear of her removal. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- No more removals in this life. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Checker: Phelps