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

Derived forms: eliminations

Type of: analysis, analytic thinking, discharge, emission, execution, expelling, murder, remotion, removal, slaying

Encyclopedia: Elimination