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ELIMINATOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eliminator mean?
• ELIMINATOR (noun)
The noun ELIMINATOR has 1 sense:
1. an agent that eliminates something
Familiarity information: ELIMINATOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agent that eliminates something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("eliminator" is a kind of...):
agent (an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eliminator"):
obliterator (an eliminator that does away with all traces)
Derivation:
eliminate (terminate, end, or take out)
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