ETYM Latin deletio, from delere. Related to Delete.
1. The act of deleting something written or printed.
2. The part that is omitted when an editorial change shortens a written passage; SYN. cut.

ETYM From Dispose.
1. A kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage; SYN. electric pig, garbage disposal.
2. The act or means of getting rid of something; SYN. disposition.
3. The power to use something or someone.

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

1. Dismissal from office.
2. The act of removing; SYN. remotion.

A gradual sinking to a lower level; SYN. subsiding, subsidence.