Need another word that means the same as “extraction”? Find 22 synonyms and 30 related words for “extraction” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Extraction” are: descent, origin, removal, taking out, drawing out, pulling out, extrication, wrenching out, tearing out, withdrawal, exaction, coercion, extortion, squeezing, expressing, separation, pressing, distillation, ancestry, parentage, ancestors, family
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “extraction” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| ancestors | Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent. |
| ancestry | One’s family or ethnic descent. He was proud of his Irish ancestry. |
| coercion | The practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats. They didn t have to use coercion. |
| descent | The descendants of one individual. His descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit. |
| distillation | The action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling. The petroleum distillation process. |
| drawing out | An illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper. |
| exaction | Act of demanding or levying by force or authority. The billions flow in through 28 taxes and countless smaller exactions. |
| expressing | Rapid transport of goods. |
| extortion | Unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority. The extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty. |
| extrication | The act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition. |
| family | A group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit. All manuscripts that share this reading constitute a family. |
| origin | Properties attributable to your ancestry. Origin in sensation. |
| parentage | The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents. This ice cream boasts American parentage. |
| pressing | The act of pressing the exertion of pressure. At the pressing of a button. |
| pulling out | The act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you. |
| removal | The forcing of individuals or communities to leave their place of residence, especially to move to ethnically homogeneous rural settlements. The forced removals of the Acadians began in late 1755. |
| separation | The action or state of moving or being moved apart. He hid in the separation between walls. |
| squeezing | A twisting squeeze. |
| taking out | The act of someone who picks up or takes something. |
| tearing out | An occasion for excessive eating or drinking. |
| withdrawal | The act of taking out money or other capital. The withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam. |
| wrenching out | A failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball. |
| anhydrous | (of a substance, especially a crystalline compound) containing no water. |
| aqueous | Like water; watery. An aqueous solution of potassium permanganate. |
| digress | Wander from a direct or straight course. Don t digress when you give a lecture. |
| digressive | Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects. Amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women s fashions among other things. |
| dilution | A liquid that has been diluted. The milk factor is greatly reduced by dilution. |
| discursive | (of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive. The attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another. |
| dissolve | Cause to lose control emotionally. She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme. |
| excursive | Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects. His excursive remarks. |
| hydrate | Cause to be hydrated add water or moisture to. A powerful moisturizer that hydrates the skin for up to twelve hours. |
| immiscible | Incapable of mixing. Benzene is immiscible with water. |
| indirect | Not directly caused by or resulting from something. Local government under the indirect control of the British. |
| irrelevant | Having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue. An irrelevant comment. |
| liquefaction | The process of making something, especially a gas, liquid. Helium can be obtained from the liquefaction of natural gas. |
| liquid | Changed from a solid to a liquid state. Drink plenty of liquids. |
| meandering | An act of wandering in a leisurely or aimless manner. Meandering streams. |
| melt | A quantity of metal melted in one operation. Richard gave her a smile that melted her heart. |
| meltwater | Melted snow or ice. Glacial meltwaters gathered on a thick bed of boulder clay. |
| naphtha | Any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents. |
| oxidize | Combine chemically with oxygen. This metal oxidizes easily. |
| petroleum | A liquid mixture of hydrocarbons which is present in suitable rock strata and can be extracted and refined to produce fuels including petrol, paraffin, and diesel oil; oil. |
| rambling | Of a path e.g. A rambling club. |
| roam | Move about or travel aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area. He let his eyes roam her face. |
| saturated | Denoting fats containing a high proportion of fatty acid molecules without double bonds considered to be less healthy in the diet than unsaturated fats. A saturated solution. |
| sidetrack | Cause (someone) to be distracted from an immediate or important issue. His monologue launches into too many rambling sidetracks. |
| soluble | Capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water. The poison is soluble in alcohol. |
| solvent | Something that acts to weaken or dispel a particular attitude or situation. An unrivalled solvent of social prejudices. |
| tangential | Relating to or along a tangent. A tangential remark. |
| thaw | A period of warmer weather that thaws ice and snow. She thawed out sufficiently to allow a smile to appear. |
| unsuitable | Not capable of being applied. The display is unsuitable for young children. |
| wandering | Of a path e.g. A wandering preacher. |
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