Definitions for eliminate
ɪˈlɪm əˌneɪtelim·i·nate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away withverb

   terminate, end, or take out

   "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"

2. obviate, rid of, eliminateverb

   do away with

3. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry offverb

   kill in large numbers

   "the plague wiped out an entire population"

4. rule out, eliminate, winnow out, rejectverb

   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. excrete, egest, eliminate, passverb

   eliminate from the body

   "Pass a kidney stone"

6. eliminateverb

   remove from a contest or race

   "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"

7. eliminateverb

   remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. eliminateverb

   To kill (a person or animal).

2. eliminateverb

   To excrete (waste products).

3. eliminateverb

   To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).

4. eliminateverb

   To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

5. Etymology: From eliminatus, past participle of eliminare, from e + limen, akin to limes; see limit.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eliminate

   Eliminate generally means to remove or get rid of something completely. It can refer to a wide variety of actions such as destroying, eradicating, excluding, or dismissing something from a certain context or environment.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Eliminateverb

   to put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty

2. Eliminateverb

   to cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity

3. Eliminateverb

   to set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration

4. Eliminateverb

   to obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion

5. Eliminateverb

   to separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system

6. Etymology: [L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See Limit.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Eliminate

   ē-lim′in-āt, v.t. to thrust out: to remove, cancel: to leave out of consideration.—adj. Elim′inable.—n. Eliminā′tion. [L. eliminăre, -ātum—e, out, limen, liminis, a threshold.]

Matched Categories

1. • Beat
   • Discharge
   • Kill
   • Math
   • Remove

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'eliminate' in Verbs Frequency: #641

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of eliminate in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of eliminate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of eliminate in a Sentence

1. Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Castro:

   Until (a vaccine) is developed, we only have one option: to eliminate the mosquito and the best way to do that is to prevent the mosquito from being born, by destroying the breeding sites.

2. Frank Harris:

   We believe we can save more lives and eliminate drunken driving (doing other things), we've been pushing.

3. Ira Mehlman:

   It's just one additional step that the California legislature is trying to take to eliminate any legal distinction between illegal aliens and legal residents of California.

4. Elizabeth Prelogar:

   Congress's attention to the question may soon eliminate any need for Supreme Court to grapple with that constitutional question.

5. Daniel Bucheli:

   While President Donald Trump has expanded health care choices and decreased costs, not to mention lowered prescription drug prices and increased transparency in the industry, 2020 Democrats want to go far beyond Obamacare, the 2020 Democrat field is embracing a government takeover of health care under the' Medicare-for-all' banner that would eliminate private insurance, increase wait times, and decrease the quality of medical care.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=eliminate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eliminate
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eliminate
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=eliminate
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=eliminate