cutting out

Noun

Meaning

surgical removal of a body part or tissue

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

ablation excision extirpation preterition pretermission aphetic aphesis inadvertency evulsion

Antonyms

entering joining combining integrating milestone assimilating
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Hypernyms

operation surgery surgical procedure surgical operation surgical process

Hyponyms

appendectomy laminectomy mastectomy hysterectomy lithotomy tonsillectomy

Examples

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. Ayn Rand

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge. Anton Webern

The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill. Lindsey Graham

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. Neil Jordan

What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system. Rod Coronado

A Portuguese apprentice who can't sew, yet would be cutting out. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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