noun
- The act of removing or getting rid of something.
- synonyms: riddance
- The bodily process of discharging waste matter.
- synonyms: evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding
- Analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives.
- synonyms: reasoning by elimination
- The act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations.
- The murder of a competitor.
- synonyms: liquidation
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