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1. (v.t.) eliminate
to get rid of; eradicate.
2. eliminate
to omit; leave out.
3. eliminate
to defeat in a contest.
4. eliminate
to kill; slaughter.
5. eliminate
Physiol. to expel, as waste, from the body.
6. eliminate
to remove (a quantity) from an equation by elimination.
Etymology: (1560–70; < L ēlīminātus, ptp. of ēlīmināre to turn out of doors )
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| Definition of 'eliminate' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with
terminate, end, or take out
"Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
2. (verb) obviate, rid of, eliminate
do away with
3. (verb) eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
kill in large numbers
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
4. (verb) rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject
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"
5. (verb) excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
eliminate from the body
"Pass a kidney stone"
6. (verb) eliminate
remove from a contest or race
"The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
7. (verb) eliminate
remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
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1. (verb) eliminate
to remove or get rid of
ways to eliminate cooking odors; laws to eliminate smoking from public places
2. eliminate
to lose and have to leave a competition
Who will be eliminated after the first round?
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| Definition of 'eliminate' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) eliminate
to put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty
2. (verb) eliminate
to cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity
3. (verb) eliminate
to set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration
4. (verb) eliminate
to obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion
5. (verb) eliminate
to separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system
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Sense: to get rid of; to omit or exclude
He was eliminated from the tennis match in the first round.
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 Afrikaans: weglaat, oor die hoof sie |
 Arabic: يُزيل، يُخْرِج، يُقْصي، ي |
 Bulgarian: елиминирам |
 Brazilian: eliminar |
 Czech: vyřadit |
 German: ausschließen, ausscheiden |
 Danish: eliminere; fjerne; ryge u |
 Greek: αποκλείω, εξαλείφω |
 Spanish: eliminar |
 Estonian: kõrvaldama |
 Farsi: حذف کردن؛ دفع کردن |
 Finnish: eliminoida |
 French: éliminer |
 Hebrew: לְסָלֶק, לְהוֹצִיא |
 Hindi: हटाना |
 Croatian: ukloniti |
 Hungarian: kizár; mellőz; felszámol |
 Indonesian: menyingkirkan |
 Icelandic: slá út; útrÿma, fjarlægja |
 Italian: eliminare |
 Japanese: 除く |
 Korean: 제거하다 |
 Lithuanian: pašalinti, panaikinti |
 Latvian: izslēgt; iznīcināt; likvi |
 Malay: singkir |
 Dutch: uitschakelen |
 Norwegian: fjerne, skyte ut, utelukk |
 Polish: wykluczać |
 Persian: حذف کردن؛ دفع کردن |
 Pashto: ليرى كول، كمول، ايسته مكو |
 Portuguese: eliminar |
 Romanian: a elimina |
 Russian: исключать |
 Slovak: vyradiť |
 Slovenian: izločiti |
 Serbian: eliminisati |
 Swedish: eliminera, sätta ur spel, |
 Thai: กำจัด |
 Turkish: elemek; atmak |
 Taiwanese: 消除，淘汰 |
 Ukrainian: знищувати; виключати |
 Urdu: خارج کرنا |
 Vietnamese: loại ra |
 Chinese: 消除，排除，淘汰 |
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