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eliminate (v. trans.)
1.kill intentionally and with premeditation"The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
2.eliminate from the body"Pass a kidney stone"
3.kill in large numbers"the plague wiped out an entire population"
4.terminate, end, or take out"Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics" "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs" "eliminate my debts"
5.remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
6.dismiss from consideration or a contest"John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi" "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
7.remove from a contest or race"The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
8.do away with
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EliminateE*lim"i*nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eliminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eliminating (?).] [L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See Limit.]
1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
Eliminate my spirit, give it range
Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.
2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth.
4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]
5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
eliminate (v. trans.)
annihilate, assassin, assassinate, carry off, decimate, demolish, destroy, discard, dispatch, dispose of, ditch, do away with, egest, eradicate, exclude, excrete, expel, exterminate, extinguish, get rid of, hit, jettison, kill, liquidate, murder, obviate, off, pass, polish off, reject, remove, rid of, rub out, rule out, screen, set aside, slay, smooth away, terminate, winnow out, wipe out, wreck, bump off (colloquial), do in (colloquial)
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eliminate (v. trans.)
↘ assassination, decimation, destroyer, destruction, destructive, devastation, elimination, exclusion, excretory, execution, extermination, killer, liquidation, liquidator, manslayer, murder, murderer, ruiner, slaying, undoer, uprooter, waster ≠ ask, call for, demand, involve, make necessary, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take
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