extraction

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Act of removing

Nouns

1. extraction, removal; drawing out, pulling; elimination, extrication, eradication, evulsion; expression, squeezing; extirpation, suction, pumping, aspiration, siphoning, draining, bleeding; excision, cutting out; disinterment, unearthing; extortion, wrenching, exaction.

2. eduction, elicitation, evolution, derivation, bringing forth. See ancestry.

3. (tool for extracting) extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers, wrench; pump, pulmotor, vacuum cleaner, siphon, aspirator.

4. (something extracted) extract, essence, elixir, distillate, decoction, concentrate, juice, etc.

Verbs

1. extract; draw, pull, tear, or pluck out; wring from, extricate, wrench, extort, exact; root, dig, or rout out, weed out; grub up, rake out, uproot, pull up; eviscerate; extirpate, eradicate, eliminate, remove; express, squeeze out; distill; pump, milk, aspirate, siphon, drain, bleed; disinter, unearth, dig up; soak [up]. Slang, shake down.

2. educe, elicit, evolve, extract, derive, bring forth or out.

Adjectives — extractive; evocative, exacting, extortionate; essential, pure.

Antonyms, see insertion.

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [One's personal or ethnic origin]

Syn. ancestry, parentage, descent; see family 1 .

2. [The pulling of a tooth]

Syn. toothdrawing, uprooting, removal, wrenching, taking out.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, descent, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed, stock. See KIN, PRECEDE.