Main entry: deracination, excision, extirpation
Definition: the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
Main entry: excision, excommunication
Definition: the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society
Main entry: excision, extirpation, ablation, cutting out
Definition: surgical removal of a body part or tissue
Main entry: cut, deletion, excision
Definition: the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
Usage: an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors; both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause