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Effacement

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

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Broader term 1

Withdrawal 76% connected

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Efface 74% connected

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indisc…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Efface 74% connected

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indisc…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Containing whole 7

Childbed 70% connected

The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Confinement 70% connected

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Labor 70% connected

Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Labour 70% connected

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Lying-in 70% connected

The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Travail 70% connected

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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