The act of expelling or throwing off; the act of discharging, or secreting by the pores.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The act of expelling or throwing off
2. the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
3. Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
4. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
Simpleness Roget’s Thesaurus §42
V. render simple, simplify, sift, winnow, bolt, eliminate, exclude, get rid of, clear, purify, disentangle
Adj. simple, uniform, of a piece, homogeneous, single, pure, sheer, neat, unmixed, unmingled, unblended, uncombined, uncompounded, elementary, undecomposed, unadulterated, unsophisticated, unalloyed, untinged, unfortified, pur et simple, incomplex, free from, exempt from, exclusive
Adv. simple, only
Exclusion Roget’s Thesaurus §55
N. exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation, exile, noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition, separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion, cofferdam
V. be excluded from &c. exclude, bar, leave out, shut out, bar out, reject, repudiate, blackball, lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside, relegate, segregate, throw overboard, strike off, strike out, neglect, banish, separate, &c. (disjoin) 44, pass over, omit, garble, eliminate, weed, winnow
Fewness Roget’s Thesaurus §103
N. fewness, paucity, small number, small quantity, rarity, infrequency, handful, maniple, minority, exiguity, reduction, weeding, elimination, sarculation|, decimation, eradication
Adj. few, scant, scanty, thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous, infrequent, rari nantes, hardly any, scarcely any, to be counted on one's fingers, reduced, unrepeated
Adv. rarely, here and there
Extraction Roget’s Thesaurus §301
N. extraction, extracting &c. # v, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers
V. extract, draw, take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out, wring from, wrench, extort, root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out, eradicate, pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots, averruncate|, unroot, uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge, remove, educe, elicit, evolve, extricate, eliminate, eviscerate, express, squeeze out, press out
Adj. extracted
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