evulsion

plucking or pulling out; forcible extraction: The evulsion of her baby tooth was painless.

Not to be confused with:

avulsion – a tearing away; a part torn off: The storm’s runoff caused an avulsion of the stream’s bank.

revulsion – disgust, repulsion, aversion; a strong feeling of repugnance: His filthy language fills me with revulsion.

e·vul·sion

(ĭ-vŭl′shən)

A forcible extraction.

[Latin ēvolsiō, ēvolsiōn-, from ēvulsus, past participle of ēvellere, to pull out : ē-, ex-, ex- + vellere, to pull.]

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evulsion

(ɪˈvʌlʃən)

rare the act of extracting by force

[C17: from Latin ēvulsiō, from ēvellere, from vellere to pluck]

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