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Definition of Eliminate
1. Verb. Terminate, end, or take out. "Eliminate my debts"
Specialized synonyms: Cancel Out, Wipe Out, Decouple, Decouple, Obliterate, Knock Out, Drown, Cut Out, Cut, Prune, Rationalise, Rationalize, Extinguish, Snuff Out, Except, Exclude, Leave Off, Leave Out, Omit, Take Out
Generic synonyms: Destroy, Destruct
Derivative terms: Elimination, Elimination, Eliminator
2. Verb. Do away with.
Specialized synonyms: Close Out, Preclude, Rule Out
Antonyms: Necessitate
Derivative terms: Obviation
3. Verb. Kill in large numbers. "They want to eliminate the prisoners "; "The plague wiped out an entire population"
Related verbs: Decimate
Generic synonyms: Kill
Derivative terms: Annihilation, Annihilation, Annihilative, Annihilator, Decimation, Extinction, Wipeout
4. Verb. Dismiss from consideration or a contest. "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
5. Verb. Eliminate from the body. "Pass a kidney stone"
Specialized synonyms: Perspire, Sudate, Sweat, Exudate, Exude, Ooze, Ooze Out, Transude, Make, Make Water, Micturate, Pass Water, Pee, Pee-pee, Piddle, Piss, Puddle, Relieve Oneself, Spend A Penny, Take A Leak, Urinate, Wee, Wee-wee, Urinate, Empty, Evacuate, Void, Ca-ca, Crap, Defecate, Make, Shit, Stool, Take A Crap, Take A Shit, Barf, Be Sick, Cast, Cat, Chuck, Disgorge, Honk, Puke, Purge, Regorge, Regurgitate, Retch, Sick, Spew, Spue, Throw Up, Upchuck, Vomit, Vomit Up
Generic synonyms: Discharge, Eject, Exhaust, Expel, Release
Derivative terms: Elimination, Excreting, Excretion, Excretory, Passing
6. Verb. Remove from a contest or race. "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
7. Verb. Remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations.
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Derivative terms: Elimination
Definition of Eliminate
1. v. t. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
Definition of Eliminate
1. Verb.
2. Verb. (slang) To kill (a person or animal). ¹
3. Verb. (physiology) To excrete (waste products). ¹
4. Verb. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition). ¹
5. Verb. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.[ FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations)] ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eliminate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Medical Definition of Eliminate
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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)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Eliminate
Literary usage of Eliminate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Higher Algebra: A Sequel to Elementary Algebra for Schools by Henry Sinclair Hall, Samuel Ratcliffe Knight (1894)
"eliminate m from the equations m2x — my + a = 0, my+x=0. 2. ... eliminate m, n
between the equations 4. eliminate p, q, r from the equations p + q+r-0, ..."
2. Maintaining Budgetary Discipline: Spending and Revenue Options edited by Sherry Snyder (1999)
"... and require RUS borrowers to use private sources of capital for all of their
loan needs, or continue a federal loan program but eliminate subsidies. ..."
3. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"... or ; later Greeks seem never to have been content to г to use the nominative
for the vocative, and dis- .nsion freely in order to eliminate the supposed ..."
4. Aeroplanes by James Slough Zerbe (1915)
"THE EARLY TENDENCY TO eliminate MOMENTUM.—Builders of flying machines, for several
years, sought to eliminate the very thing which gives energy to a ..."
5. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Hopes thereby to eliminate war. — Trip to Newfoundland. — Temporary failure.
— FOJ Smith continues to give trouble. —• Financial conditions improve. ..."
6. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Hopes thereby to eliminate war. — Trip to Newfoundland. — Temporary failure.
— FOJ Smith continues to give trouble. — Financial conditions improve. ..."
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