Nix vs Eliminate - What's the difference?
nix | eliminate |
(colloquial): nothing.
To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
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To destroy or eradicate.
A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.
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(slang) To kill (a person or animal).
(physiology) To excrete (waste products).
To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
(accounting) To record amounts in a to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
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As a proper noun nix
is (astronomy) one of the moons of pluto (named 21 june 2006) or nix can be .As a verb eliminate is
to completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists
. nix
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nix, colloquial form of . More at (l).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* nada * zipVerb
(es)- Nix the last order - the customer walked out.
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Etymology 2
Noun
(es)eliminate
English
Verb
(eliminat)To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
- Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
- John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
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