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The act of removing
Answer for the clue "The act of removing ", 8 letters:
remotion
Word definitions for remotion in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" [syn: removal ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (lb en zoology chiefly entomology) Backward motion. (qualifier: Contrast ''promotion''.) 2 (lb en especially logic largely obsolete) removal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remotion \Re*mo"tion\ (r?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. remotio. See Remove .] The act of removing; removal. [Obs.] This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only. --Shak. The state of being remote; remoteness. [R.] The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask ...