Associations to the word «Eliminate»

Wiktionary

ELIMINATE, verb. (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
ELIMINATE, verb. (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
ELIMINATE, verb. (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
ELIMINATE, verb. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
ELIMINATE, verb. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Dictionary definition

ELIMINATE, verb. Terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts".
ELIMINATE, verb. Do away with.
ELIMINATE, verb. Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population".
ELIMINATE, verb. 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".
ELIMINATE, verb. Eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone".
ELIMINATE, verb. Remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race".
ELIMINATE, verb. Remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations.

Wise words

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