1. extraction

noun. ['ɛkˈstrækʃən'] the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force).

Rhymes with Extraction

• dissatisfaction
• satisfaction
• liquefaction
• transaction
• subtraction
• distraction
• contraction
• abstraction
• retraction
• infraction
• diffraction
• classaction
• telaction
• interaction
• exaction
• attraction
• reaction
• inaction
• fraction
• faction

How do you pronounce extraction?

Pronounce extraction as ɛkˈstrækʃən.

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Sentences with extraction

1. Noun, singular or mass
Use a teaspoon of the extraction to a cup of water, tea or other drink.

Quotes about extraction

1. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
- John Milton, Areopagitica

2. extraction

noun. ['ɛkˈstrækʃən'] properties attributable to your ancestry.

3. extraction

noun. ['ɛkˈstrækʃən'] the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means.