Related Clues:

• Eliminate
• Substitute
• Scour
• Pass through fire, perhaps
• Bench warmer
• Terminate
• Take out of the game
• Clean with effort
• Clean with a vengeance
• Abort, as a mission
• Wash the pots
• Do a pre-op chore
• Prepare for an operation
• Cancel, as a space flight
• Bench sitter