Meaning of REMOTION
| Pronunciation: | | ri'mowshun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" |
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| | Synonyms: | | removal |
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| | See Also: | | abscission, abstraction, autotomy, baring, cutting off, decontamination, deletion, denudation, dermabrasion, disembowelment, dislodgement, dislodgment, elimination, emptying, evacuation, evisceration, extraction, husking, riddance, rinse, rinsing, separation, skimming, stripping, uncovering, voidance, withdrawal | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Re*mo"tion\ (r?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. remotio. See
{Remove}.]
1. The act of removing; removal. [Obs.]
This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only.
--Shak.
2. The state of being remote; remoteness. [R.]
The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask
conferred by the enormity of their remotion. --De
Quincey.
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