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Process of elimination
Answer for the clue "Process of elimination ", 7 letters:
removal
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Word definitions for removal in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of moving, or the fact of being removed. 2 The relocation of a business etc. 3 The dismissal of someone from office. 4 (context Ireland English) A funeral ceremony involving prayers and meeting of the family, usually at the home of the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" [syn: remotion ] dismissal from office
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s; see remove (v.) + -al (2).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Removal \Re*mov"al\ (-al), n. The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES removal van stain removal ▪ Here are a few quick tips for stain removal. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE complete ▪ Cheshire Carers' spokeswoman Lil Hughes said they would battle for a complete removal of the charge. ...
Usage examples of removal.
Sometimes the removal of the watery accumulation by tapping becomes necessary, in order to afford relief and give time for remedies to act.
Doctor Gozzi, who was attached to me, called me privately one day into his study, and asked me whether I would feel disposed to carry out the advice he would give me in order to bring about my removal from the house of the Sclavonian woman, and my admission in his own family.
On the 25th of the Eleventh Month, we were introduced into deep affliction by the sudden removal of our precious elder, E.
A distinct operculum is usually detached by the help of the annulus, and its removal may leave the mouth of the capsule widely open.
The zeal of Damophilus, which in a Catholic saint would have been justly applauded, embraced, without hesitation, a life of poverty and exile, and his removal was immediately followed by the purification of the Imperial city.
This would amply account for the removal of Richard Lee to Virginia, and for the ambition he seems to have been inspired with, to build and improve, without attributing to him any apprehension of probable punishment for his political course.
While both men were at the hospital for serum tetanus shots and hook removal, he had gone in search of a big supply of barbless hooks.
Being widely known as specialists, devoting our undivided attention to chronic affections, and having unusual facilities for the investigation and management of such cases, we have been applied to in innumerable instances, to ascertain the causes of barrenness and effect its removal.
I was embarrassed at the obvious depraved pleasure with which this miniaturist had drawn pictures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, hangings by the neck or the feet, hookings, impalings, firings from cannon, nailings, stranglings, the cutting of throats, feedings to hungry dogs, whippings, baggings, pressings, soakings in cold water, the plucking of hair, the breaking of fingers, the delicate flayings, the cutting off of noses and the removal of eyes.
The shackling of the Breeching and the removal of the Bolt are, therefore, deferred until the Gun has been run out in the subsequent proceedings.
Cathan helped the king shed his brigandine and the close-fitting leather tunic underneath, for it became clear that the narrow sleeves would not allow removal once the hand was bandaged.
From the careful detail of its various properties, there is abundant reason for its favorable action upon all of the excretory organs, which co-operate in the removal of morbid materials from the system.
Constitution was that the power of removal was always an incident of the power of appointment, and that therefore in the case of officers appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate the removal power was exercisable by the President only with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Removal of the hair-pin was effected by first inserting within the meatus a Gruber speculum, encircling the unbroken projecting prong, and then raising the end of the broken one with a long-shanked aural hook, when the hair-pin was readily withdrawn.
He talked her through the incision, the insertion of the forceps and removal of the little fragment of meniscus , and the trimming of the tear and removal of the piece she had cut off.