the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence पर्याय: extirpation, deracination,
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 पर्याय: excommunication,
the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor''s deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause" पर्याय: deletion, cut,