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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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