English
Noun
Extraction (plural Extractions)
- An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
- A person's origin or ancestry.
- Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
- (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
- (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
Synonyms
Thesaurus
affiliation, ancestry, apparentation, architecture, assembly, attraction, attrition, birth, blood, bloodline, bolting, branch, breed, building, casting, clarification, colature, common ancestry, composition, concentrate, concentration, consanguinity, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, curtailment, cut, cutting, decoction, decrease, decrement, depletion, depreciation, deracination, derivation, derogation, descent, destructive distillation, detraction, devising, diminution, dip, direct line, disparagement, distaff side, distillate, distillation, draft, drawing, drayage, edulcoration, elaboration, elixir, elution, elutriation, eradication, erection, essence, essentialization, excerpt, excerption, extirpation, extract, extrication, fabrication, family, fashioning, female line, filiation, filtering, filtration, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, haulage, hauling, heaving, house, impairment, infusion, leaching, lessening, line, line of descent, lineage, lixiviation, machining, making, male line, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, origin, parentage, passage, pedigree, percolation, phylum, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, pull, pulling, pulling power, purification, quintessence, race, raising, reduction, refinement, refining, remission, removal, retraction, retrenchment, riddling, screening, seed, selected passage, selection, separation, sept, shaping, shortening, shrinkage, side, sieving, sifting, smelting, spear side, spindle side, spirit, spiritualization, stem, stirps, stock, strain, straining, sublimation, succession, sword side, towage, towing, traction, tractive power, truncation, tug-of-war, tugging, uprooting, winnowing, withdrawal, workmanship
Pronunciation
Translations
one's origin, lineage or ancestry
extract obtained from a mixture or from a plant etc
— see extract
removal of a tooth from its socket
