'Eliminate' definitions:
Definition of 'eliminate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" [syn: extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with]
verb
Do away with [syn: obviate, rid of, eliminate] [ant: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take]
verb
Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]
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" [syn: rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject]
verb
verb
Remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
verb
Remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
Definition of 'Eliminate'
From: GCIDE
- Eliminate \E*lim"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eliminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliminating.] [L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See Limit.]
- 1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. [1913 Webster]
- Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. --Young. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. [1913 Webster]
- Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. --Lowth. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized] [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'eliminate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abscind,
- abstract,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- assassinate,
- ban,
- bar,
- bate,
- blow,
- blow out,
- bob,
- cast,
- cast aside,
- cast away,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- chuck,
- clean out,
- clear,
- clear away,
- clear off,
- clear out,
- clear the decks,
- clip,
- count out,
- crop,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- debar,
- deep-six,
- defecate,
- delete,
- deplete,
- deport,
- deracinate,
- discard,
- discharge,
- dismiss,
- dispel,
- dispose of,
- ditch,
- do away with,
- dock,
- drain,
- dump,
- effuse,
- egest,
- eighty-six,
- eject,
- elide,
- emit,
- empty,
- empty out,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- erase,
- evacuate,
- evict,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- excrete,
- exhaust,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- expunge,
- exterminate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- extravasate,
- exudate,
- exude,
- fling off,
- freeze out,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- get shut of,
- give away,
- give off,
- isolate,
- jettison,
- jilt,
- knock off,
- liquidate,
- lop,
- murder,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- oust,
- outlaw,
- pare,
- part with,
- pass,
- peel,
- pick out,
- prune,
- purge,
- reject,
- remove,
- root out,
- root up,
- rule out,
- scour out,
- secrete,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shake off,
- shave,
- shear,
- shoo,
- shut out,
- slough,
- stamp out,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- strip,
- strip off,
- suspend,
- sweep away,
- sweep out,
- take off,
- take out,
- throw away,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- throw over,
- throw overboard,
- toss overboard,
- transude,
- truncate,
- unclog,
- unfoul,
- uproot,
- vent,
- void,
- weed out,
- weep,
- wipe out