nail removal

1. 1.

   a form of torture in which the fingernails or toenails are removed

   Synonymsnail pulling

   Broadertorture

Questions about nail removal

What does nail removal mean?

nail removal means "a form of torture in which the fingernails or toenails are removed".

What is another word for nail removal?

Close synonyms include nail pulling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nail removal a common word?

nail removal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.