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(v)
(transitive) To remove (markings or information).
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(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
(transitive) To edit, especially to censor, written documents.
(n)
The act of deleting.
(transitive) To erase or strike out.
(transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
(transitive) To delete.
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
removal
The process of removing or the fact of being removed.
(ambitransitive) To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.
(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
(intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
(intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something.
(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
(transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
(transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.
(historical, often capitalised, UK, US) The ending of the slave trade or of slavery.
(countable) A disposing of or getting rid of something.
To reverse the effects of an action.
The act of stopping producing or supplying a product.
To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
(transitive) To throw away, to reject.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
The act or process of making or becoming clear.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
The occurrence of something being discontinued; a cessation; an incomplete ending.
(transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
(transitive) To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
To defeat decisively, to suppress.
(transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
(transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
Alternative form of phaseout. [The action of phasing out; an incremental removal or reduction.]
to unregister
(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
The act by which something is closed.
The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
(transitive) To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
(transitive) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
(intransitive) To cease moving.
(transitive) (also reflexive) Followed by of: to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance.
The act or instance of suppressing.
(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
The act by which something is suppressed; a suppression.
(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
To halt something temporarily.
(adj)
Separated in time, space, or degree.
(Of a product) Permanently no longer available for sale
(transitive) To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
The act of something that drops or falls.
(physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
The terminal point of something in space or time.
Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
No longer planned or scheduled.
To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
(adv)
From a place, hence.
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
Away from the inside or centre.
(transitive) To leave out or exclude.
(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
(transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
The act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.
To issue, distribute, or give out.
(transitive) To put in between or into.
(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
(transitive) To supply or substitute an equivalent with.
The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
(uncountable) The act of omitting.
To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
inclined, minded
To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
(gerund) The act of searching through refuse for useful material.
A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
Direction.
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
Transparent in colour.
(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
(accounting) The cancellation of an item; the amount cancelled or lost.
To cut out; to remove.