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WANG Wei <wangwei_org@sina.com> writes:

> When we say (defun xxx () ...), we introduce a new name "xxx" in
> Emacs. A lot of such names will dirty the global name space. So I
> wonder how to delete names that I don't need any more.

Use `fmakunbound' to remove a function and `makunbound' to remove a
variable.