(n.) The act of plucking out; a rooting out.
Thesaurus Entries
avulsion, cutting out, deracination, disentanglement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, enucleation, eradication, evolvement, excavation, excision, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, mining, pressing out, pulling, quarrying, removal, ripping out, squeezing out, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal, wresting out
