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extraction

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Synonyms and Antonyms of extraction

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended

a family of Italian extraction

Synonyms of extraction

ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, breeding, descent, family tree, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock, strain

Words Related to extraction

heredity, succession

kin, kindred, relations, relatives

Near Antonyms of extraction

child, heir, inheritor, son, successor

Antonyms of extraction

issue, posterity, progeny, seed

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