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The polite word for making something disappear while pretending nothing happened.
means The act of taking something away or off, from furniture carted out of a house to unwanted tissue cut out of a body.
from Built from 'remove,' which came through French from Latin removere — re- 'back, away' plus movere 'to move.' The -al suffix turns the action into a noun, the same pattern you see in 'arrival' or 'refusal.' Nothing hidden in the roots themselves — the euphemistic chill is a trick of modern usage, not ancient DNA.
- legal sense
- removal can mean firing a judge or official
- medical sense
- surgeons removal tumors, not merely remove them
- British usage
- removal men means movers, not assassins
- euphemism power
- softer than deletion, scarier than departure