(1) The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage.

(2) Surgical removal of a body part or tissue.

(3) 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.

(4) The act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence.

(5) The act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church.

(6) Cutting a person off from a religious society.

(7) The act of pulling up or out.

(8) Uprooting.

(9) Cutting off from existence.

(10) Extraction.