removal
taking away, separation, or erasure of an item or feature
wear
damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces
remission
cancellation of a debt, charge, or penalty
caging
challenging and removing voter names from voter registration lists
discarding
getting rid of something no longer wanted
hair removal
temporary removal of body hair
forfeiture
deprivation or destruction of a legal right in consequence of the non-performance of some obligation or condition
genocide of indigenous peoples
genocide of native inhabitants of a region
circumcision
removal of the foreskin from the human penis
noise reduction
process of removing noise from a signal
curettage
use of a curette to remove tissue
penis removal
removal of the penis, usually as an act of aggression (for voluntary penis removal, see penectomy)
undress
to remove your clothes or remove the clothes from someone else
erosion
action of exogenic processes which remove soil and rock from one location on the Earth's crust, then transport it to another location where it is deposited
ethnic cleansing
various ways of displacing or exterminating human beings from another ethnic group from a territory
girdling
removal of the bark from around the entire circumference
double negative elimination
inference rule that allows to infer a formula without the relevant negations when they immediately follows in an original formula
oophorectomy
surgical removal of one or both ovaries
weld purging
removing contaminants from vicinity of welding joint
castration
surgical or chemical action that removes use of testicles
degaussing
process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field
deforestation
removal of forest and conversion of the land to non-forest use
elision
omission of one or more sounds in a word or phrase
expulsion
removal of a student from a school
purge
removal of people who are considered undesirable
beating the bounds
annually verifying parish boundaries
unloading
discharge a load, a freight or other goods from a transport vehicle or similar
removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
ongoing controversy in the United States
dispossession
act of depriving someone of property by coercive, illegal or unjust means
trimming
string operation of removing leading and trailing whitespace
banishing
type of ritual in ceremonial magic
ectomy
surgical procedure that removes something, usually from inside the body
cancelling out
mathematical process used for removing subexpressions from a mathematical expression
pruning
selective removal of parts of a plant
elimination reaction
type of organic reaction in which two substituents are removed from a molecule in either a one or two-step mechanism
filing
material removal process in manufacturing
dead code elimination
compiler optimization to remove code which does not affect the program results
refining
process in glass manufacture; removal of bubbles from the molten glass
snow removal
job of removing snow
burr
small cutting tool
dubbing
procedure of removing the comb, wattles and sometimes earlobes of poultry