reduced, trimmed, axed, removed, abolished, defeated, dismantled, eradicated, erased, jettisoned, whittled, scrapped, reinstated, excised, replaced, ousted, annihilated, withdrawn, neutralized, cut, chopping block, avoided, routed, winnowed, halved, vanquished, relegated, excluded, spared, banished, lost, downsized, overhauled, nixed, curtailed, exempted, disappear, undone, wiped, minimized, eviscerated, vanish, decimated, reintroduced, reconfigured, exorcised, dethroned, rescinded, reassigned, discontinued, relocated, narrowed, supplanted, dropped, slashed, purged, obliterated, weeded, evaporated, crowned, lopped, instated, absorbed, repealed, shrunk, duplicated, overtaken, pared, terminated, squashed, lessened, realigned, implemented, overrun, exterminated, canceled, omitted, squelched, alleviated, reclassified, expelled, reconsidered, retained, transferred, drubbed, forfeited, phased, favored, tamed, disbanded, disqualified, deleted, trounced, felled, demoted, discarded, halted, instituted, banned, mitigated, stripped, restored

., eliminate, elimination tournament, gastroenterostomy, going to jerusalem, hit list, musical chairs, physiological nystagmus, spelldown, spelling bee, spelling contest, trial-and-error, winnow