extraction

The process of taking something out of a place or substance.

• The dentist recommended a tooth extraction.
• Oil extraction provides jobs in this region.
• The extraction of useful data took several hours.

How to use it: extraction of something from something (The extraction of oil from these rocks is expensive.)

Similar words: removal

Opposites: insertion

Common phrases: tooth extraction, oil extraction, extraction of something

The act of taking a tooth out of someone’s mouth.

• The dentist recommended an extraction.
• My gum hurt after the tooth extraction.
• Will I need an extraction for this broken tooth?

Similar words: tooth removal

Common phrases: tooth extraction, dental extraction, extraction site

The act of taking someone away from a dangerous place to somewhere safe.

• The team arranged an extraction.
• A helicopter carried out the soldiers’ extraction.
• Bad weather delayed our extraction from the island.

How to use it: extraction from somewhere (Their extraction from the war zone took two hours.)

Similar words: evacuation

Common phrases: emergency extraction, extraction team, extraction point

The country or people that someone’s family originally comes from.

• He is of French extraction.
• Several families of Chinese extraction live here.
• The writer was of mixed European extraction.

How to use it: of + nationality + extraction (Her grandparents were of Italian extraction.)

Similar words: descent, ancestry, origin

Common phrases: of French extraction, of Chinese extraction, of Irish extraction

Something taken out of a plant, an animal, or another source.

• The extraction contained oil from the leaves.
• They examined the extraction under a microscope.
• Each extraction was stored in a small glass bottle.

Similar words: extract

Common phrases: plant extraction, chemical extraction