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eliminant

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eliminate (ɪˈlɪmɪˌneɪt)

—vb
1.	to remove or take out; get rid of
2.	to reject as trivial or irrelevant; omit from consideration
3.	to remove (a competitor, team, etc) from a contest, usually by defeat
4.	slang to murder in a cold-blooded manner
5.	physiol to expel (waste matter) from the body
6.	maths to remove (an unknown variable) from two or more simultaneous equations

[C16: from Latin ēlīmināre to turn out of the house, from e- out + līmen threshold]

usage Eliminate is sometimes wrongly used to talk about avoiding the repetition of something undesirable: we must prevent (not eliminate) further mistakes of this kind

e'liminable

—*adj*

elimina'bility

—n

e'liminant

—n

e'liminative

—*adj*

e'liminatory

—*adj*

e'liminator

—n

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Eliminant is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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