消除

Verb

 * 1) to remove; to clear; to eliminate; to dispel

Etymology
Borrowed from. Compare modern 🇨🇬 reading xiāochú, 🇨🇬 siau-tû.

Noun

 * 1) vanishing, disappearance, removal, erasure

Verb

 * 1)  to vanish, to disappear
 * 2)  to make something vanish or disappear, to remove, to erase

Usage notes
This term is seldom used in modern Japanese, and is not included in some dictionaries.

The more common terms are for the transitive verb, or  for either the noun or verb.