Word Meanings - EJECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions. 3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment. (more info) 1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast

Additional info about word: EJECTION

The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions. 3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment. (more info) 1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." Eustace. "The ejection of a word." Johnson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EJECTION)

• Elision
• Omission
• ejection
• excerption
• abridgment
• ellipse

Related words: (words related to EJECTION)

• ABRIDGMENT
  1. The act abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses. 2. An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient
• OMISSION
  1. The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty. The most natural division of all offenses is into those of omission and those of commission. Addison. 2. That which is omitted or is left undone.
• EJECTION
  The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions. 3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment. (more info) 1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast
• EXCERPTION
  1. The act of excerpting or selecting. 2. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract. His excerptions out of the Fathers. Fuller.
• ELLIPSE
  An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• REJECTION
  Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
• INTROMISSION
  An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority. (more info) 1. The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion. South. 2. The act of letting go in; admission.