The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage:
— Both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause.

synonyms: cut, deletion.

Surgical removal of a body part or tissue.

synonyms: ablation, cutting out, extirpation.

Roget 38: subtraction, subduction^†; deduction, retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation^†; abstraction etc. (taking) 789; garbling, etc. v.. mutilation, detruncation^†; amputation; abscission, excision, recision; curtailment etc. 201; minuend, subtrahend; decrease etc. 36; abrasion.    ... show more

Dutch: amputatie, ablatie

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.

synonym: excommunication.

Dutch: excommunicatie, banvonnis
Polish: ekskomunika

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

synonyms: deracination, extirpation.

Dutch: uitroeiing, verdelging