the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence;
the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church; cutting a person off from a religious society;
surgical removal of a body part or tissue;
the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor''s deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause";
