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Eliminate
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- 1 To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to. transitive
"The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons."
- 2 eliminate from the body wordnet
- 3 To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing) transitive
- 4 kill in large numbers wordnet
- 5 To kill (a person or animal). slang, transitive
"a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies"
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- 6 terminate, end, or take out wordnet
- 7 To excrete (waste products). ambitransitive
"In one study, 65.8% of the cat owners relinquishing a cat thought that their cat eliminated outside the litter box or destroyed furniture to spite them."
- 8 remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations wordnet
- 9 To exclude (from investigation or from further competition). transitive
"Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses."
- 10 dismiss from consideration or a contest wordnet
- 11 To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- 12 remove from a contest or race wordnet
- 13 get rid of something wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēlīminātus, perfect passive participle of ēlīminō (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē- + līmen (“a threshold”, līmin- in compounds) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”); see also English limit and limen.
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