Dictionary Entry
extraction
extraction is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
- 2noun
Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
- 3noun
That which is extracted; extract; essence.
- 4noun
the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)
"the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
- 5noun
properties attributable to your ancestry
"he comes from good origins"
- 6noun
the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
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