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Meaning of 'eliminate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Eliminate [ v. t.]
- To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
- To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
- To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
- To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
- To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.

Meaning of 'eliminate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . eliminate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- terminate, end, or take out
Example in sentence:
  • eliminate my debts;
  • Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics;
  • Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
Meaning (2):
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
Example in sentence:
  • John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi;
  • This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration
Meaning (3):
- eliminate from the body
Example in sentence:
  • Pass a kidney stone
Meaning (4):
- do away with
Example in sentence:
  • Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia
Meaning (5):
- remove from a contest or race
Example in sentence:
  • The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race
Meaning (6):
- kill in large numbers
Example in sentence:
  • the plague wiped out an entire population

Nearby Words:

elicit elicitate elicitation elicited eliciting elide elided eliding eligibility eligible

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