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Get rid of acid brought up: eater struggling to swallow it (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eradicate

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'get rid of' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'eater struggling to swallow it' is the wordplay.
'struggling' is an anagram indicator (the letters struggle or wriggle into a new form).
'to swallow' is an insertion indicator.
'it' becomes 'dica' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'eater' anagrammed gives 'erate'.
'erate' going around 'dica' is 'ERADICATE'.

'acid brought up' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for eradicate that I've seen before include "Expunge" , "Kill" , "Destroy completely" , "Extinguish, wipe out" , "Scotch" .)

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