eliminatev.

Brit.

/ᵻˈlɪmᵻneɪt/, U.S.

/əˈlɪməˌneɪt/,

/iˈlɪməˌneɪt/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ēlīmināt-, ēlīmināre.

Etymology: < classical Latin ēlīmināt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of ēlīmināre to turn out of doors, to let out (secrets), in post-classical Latin also to remove (5th cent.) < ē- e- prefix² + līmin- , līmen threshold (see limen n.).Compare Middle French eliminer , French éliminer (1495). Specific senses. With sense 1b compare Horace Epistles 1. 5. 25 ne fidos inter amicos sit qui dicta foras eliminet ‘let there not be anyone among trusted friends who carries what is said outside’. In sense 4 apparently after classical Latin ē- e- prefix² and līmin-, līmen threshold (see limen n.). In sense 5 after post-classical Latin eliminare (a1671 in Newton in this sense, in the passage translated in quot. 1736 at sense 5).

a. transitive. To thrust out of doors; to expel or eject from a place; to throw out. Now rare or merged with sense 3a.Also in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel

afferreOE

warpc1000

outdriveOE

wreakc1100

to cast out1297

to cast fortha1382

out-chasec1395

flecchea1400

to shoot forth, out, awaya1400

propel?1440

expulse?a1475

scour1488

out-thrust1532

to catch forthc1540

propulse1548

pulsec1550

unplant1552

to turn out of ——1562

extrude1566

detrude?1567

eliminate1568

deturbate1570

detruse1571

unroost1598

to put by1600

deturb1609

bolt1615

run1631

disembogue1632

out of1656

expel1669

rout1812

to manage (a person) out of1907

1568 Abp. M. Parker Let. 6 Feb. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 314 To help eliminate out of his [sc. God's] house this offendicle.

1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie To Rdr. sig. ¶¶ 1 The secound sorte thearfore, that eliminate Poets out of their citie gates.

1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia x. 107 We could banish and eliminate out of the verge, one of the best Waiters at Court, though one of the worst servants in it, namely, Flattery.

1648 H. Pinnell Word of Prophesy 44 I am not therefore to dissert and relinquish my opinion, because a Convention of men doth eliminate, exterminate and eject it for an errour.

1778 W. Cookworthy & T. Hartley tr. E. Swedenborg Treat. Heaven & Hell i. 5 Should any one [angel], whose belief and confession were so contradictory, come among them, he would immediately be discovered, and eliminated from their society.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 116 From which [room], with the most engaging politeness, she eliminated poor Firkin.

1971 R. Blumhorst in W. McQuade Cities Fit to live In iii. 27/1 A visitor goes past a desk and a smiling receptionist while inconspicuous guards eliminate uninvited and unwanted persons.

2010 D. Bedigian Sesame xxiii. 385 After 1915, the Christian population responsible for such cultivation was forcibly eliminated from the country.

†b. transitive. figurative. To divulge (something meant to be kept hidden, as a secret). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > secrets

discovera1375

labc1400

bewray1578

blab1582

discabinet1605

eviscerate1607

eliminate1608

to give upa1640

vent1678

betray1734

confide1735

leak1859

to shell out1862

clatfart1913

spill1917

unzip1939

1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 115. Let euery man endevour..to be..so setled, that at no time..hee..suffer his tongue to eliminate any part of his thoughts.

1619 J. Hales Let. 1 Jan. 52 in Golden Remains (1659) Whatsoever..we do, is..presently eliminated, and carryed to them.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. x. §4. 100 He did eliminate, and divulge the mysteries of their gods.

a1753 R. Newton in tr. Theophrastus Characters (1754) vii. 78 However important to be kept secret, or unseasonable to be eliminated, he could not forbear.

1830 Brit. Critic & Q. Theol. Rev. July 72 Scarcely a pimp, a fiddler, or a buffoon..does not think himself authorized to eliminate the stale jests which he has heard repeated at his patron's table, and to found thereon a Memoir of his contemporaries.

†c. transitive. To release from confinement, set free. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from confinement

unbindc950

to let freec1000

aletOE

to let out1154

loosea1225

slakec1374

loosen1382

to let goc1384

releasec1384

unloosec1400

unlockc1410

dissolvec1420

relievec1450

unloosen?a1475

to set at liberty1509

enlargea1513

to let at large1525

to let loose1530

to turn loose?1566

enfranchise1569

to turn up1573

enfranch1581

unkennel1589

unwind1596

to cast loosec1600

disimmure1611

disimprison1611

unhamper1620

to let abroad1633

unfold1633

disencloister1652

disencage1654

discagea1657

disincarcerate1665

eliminate1745

unspherea1806

unmew1818

unbottle1821

uncage1837

unbag1854

bust1921

1745 E. Young Consolation 30 Eliminate my Spirit, give it Range Through Provinces of Thought yet unexplor'd.

a. transitive. Medicine. To expel or remove from the body; spec. to excrete (waste material, foreign or toxic substances, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > letting or forcing out (a substance, etc.) > let or force out (a substance, etc.) [verb (transitive)]

eliminate1628

extravasate1669

perspire1699

extravase1703

1628 W. Folkingham Panala Medica x. 65 Panala..is a legitimate Diacatholique, a generall happy Purgatiue eliminating all humors offensiue in qualitie or in quantity.

1695 J. Pechey Store-house Physical Pract. cxviii. 470 When Sweat is promoted much by Cordials and hot Regimen, the Particles are eliminated.

1729 J. B. tr. A. Belloste Hosp. Surgeon Vol. II 14 Eliminate them out of the Body by the perspiratory Passages.

1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. xxxix. 496 A week or two are required to eliminate the mercury from the constitution.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 66/1 The infant just eliminated from the uterus.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iv. 91 Certain plants excrete sweet juice..for the sake of eliminating something injurious from the sap.

1877 I. Rosenthal Gen. Physiol. Muscles & Nerves 87 An acid is formed, which is..again eliminated and carried away by the blood.

1906 H. W. Wiley Infl. Food Preservatives & Artific. Colors on Digestion & Health: Salicyclic Acid & Salicylates (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Chemistry, No. 84 710 Of the total nitrogen ingested in the food 84.5 per cent is eliminated in the urine.

1945 Hygeia May 347/1 The lungs eliminate carbon dioxide.

1977 Audubon May 11/2 Denning bears can survive the winter without eating, drinking, or eliminating body wastes.

2000 Business Day (S. Afr.) 28 Jan. 11/3 The easiest port of exit for toxins is the skin, which eliminates them through sweating during a sauna or steam bath.

b. transitive. Chemistry. To detach (a molecule or its components) from a larger molecule in a chemical reaction; to produce (a simple molecule) in an elimination reaction. Often in passive. Cf. elimination n. 6.

ΚΠ

1815 M. Donovan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 105 i. 242 As much oxide of lead was liberated from the acetate, as was necessary to the neutrality of the acid eliminated from the compound with magnesia.

1873 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 26 167 Dinitrobenzene was reduced by means of tin and hydrochloric acid; the bromine was eliminated by the nascent hydrogen and paraphenylenediamine was formed.

1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) xlviii. 735 Yeast contains an enzyme, carboxylase, which is capable of eliminating CO₂ from α-ketonic acids.

1957 R. H. Thomson Naturally Occurring Quinones iv. 242 Reduction with hydriodic acid and red phosphorus eliminates two hydroxyl groups.

1981 P. Sykes Guidebk. to Mechanism in Org. Chem. (ed. 5) ix. 251 Where β-H removal can take place from alternative alkyl substituents in ‘onium’ salts,..it is always the least substituted alkene that is eliminated preferentially.

2006 J. M. Hornback Org. Chem. (Internat. Student ed.) xi. 436 Diazo compounds are relatively unstable and readily eliminate nitrogen to form carbenes.

a. transitive. gen. To remove entirely, get rid of, do away with (a material or non-material object). Now also euphemistic: to deprive of life; to kill, assassinate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > do away with or eradicate

to do awayOE

to do outOE

to put awaya1382

outroot?a1425

to set awayc1430

to set apart1455

roota1500

weed1526

ridc1540

root1565

displace1580

root1582

put1584

eradicate1647

eliminate1650

eruncate1651

to knock out1883

1650 tr. J.-F. Senault Christian Man viii. viii. 389 We shall be no longer obliged to instruct the Simple, because the Beatifical Vision will eliminate all Ignorance.

1714 W. Lowth Comm. Isaiah Prel. Diss. 62 To be able to discharge and eliminate the errors.

1753 Universal Mag. Feb. 71/1 The love of life is so intimately blended with our mortal frame, that death alone can eliminate it.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 533 The..tendency of Herodotus to eliminate from the myths the idea of special aid from the gods.

1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 19 Eliminating middle men and intermediate profits.

1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 306 Miss Brontë finds it needful to eliminate the supernatural.

1937 J. Marquand Thank you, Mr. Moto v. 36 I was proportionately surprised at myself to discover that a part of my character which I thought had been entirely eliminated had come back.

1979 T. Benn Arguments for Socialism ii. 49 We aim to eliminate poverty, to achieve a far greater economic equality and meet urgent social needs.

1998 Time 2 Mar. 31/1 Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline.

2014 Times 10 Oct. 1/2 A cure for diabetes is within reach after scientists developed a treatment that eliminates the need for sufferers to inject insulin.

†b. transitive. figurative. To disregard, treat as non-existent; to set aside as irrelevant (certain elements of a question or concept). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration

forheedc1275

sequesterc1380

forlaya1400

to lay awaya1400

to put, set or lay byc1425

to lay by1439

to lay asidec1440

to set, lay, put apart1477

bar1481

to lay apart1526

to throw out1576

disclude1586

to fling aside1587

to fling away1587

exclude1593

daff1598

to throw by1644

eliminate1850

to write off1861

to filter out1934

slam-dunk1975

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. ii. 40 I forgot the Corsair's sinful trade..I honestly eliminated the bad element.

1857 W. M. Thackeray Virginians (1858) I. vi. 47 The logicians of St. James's and Versailles wisely chose to consider the matter in dispute as a European and not a Red-man's question, eliminating him from the argument, but employing his tomahawk as it might serve the turn of either litigant.

1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) i. 3 We must eliminate these customs from our conception of that condition.

†4. transitive. To pass the threshold of, come out of. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out of [verb (transitive)]

to come out of ——lOE

to carve (a knight) out ofc1405

eliminatea1657

a1657 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 16 Th'art Hood all ore And ne'r Eliminat'st thy Dore.

5. transitive. Mathematics. To remove (a constant, variable, factor, etc.) from an equation, set of equations, or matrix by algebraic manipulation; esp. to remove (a variable) from a system of simultaneous equations by combining two or more of the equations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > algebra > perform algebra [verb (transitive)] > eliminate quantity or simplify

cancel1543

lessen1668

destroy1706

eliminate1736

exterminate1743

rationalize1816

1736 J. Colson tr. I. Newton Method of Fluxions 131 And by the third 2vv - 4a = 4ay, or (eliminating [L. eliminando] v) ^v/ _4s - 1 = z.

1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. (at cited word) If by means of one of these we eliminate p from the rest, the process..would allow of our eliminating both x and y by one equation only.

1875 I. Todhunter Algebra for Schools 89 By this process we are said to eliminate the unknown quantity which does not appear in the single equation.

1952 D. R. Hartree Numerical Anal. viii. 158 The coefficient a_jk..is called the ‘pivotal coefficient’ or ‘pivot’ for this elimination; it is the coefficient, in the pivotal equation, of the variable to be eliminated.

2008 J. P. Cullerne & A. Machacek Lang. Physics ii. 35 We can combine these two equations to eliminatet by calculating the scalar product g · s.

†6. transitive. To disengage, isolate, or extract (particular elements) from a compound; to disentangle (a fact or principle) from a mass of confused details; (hence) to elicit, deduce. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from main body > an element from mass of detail

eliminate1843

1843 Foreign & Colonial Q. Rev. 2 337 It being..impossible that such infinite ideas as God, eternity, etc...could ever be eliminated by either the will, the reason, or the finite evidence of the finite senses.

1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. iv. i. §2. 455 We have sought to eliminate the truth by exhibiting nature in its full and living action.

1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. ii. 510 He would..eliminate the main fact from all the confusing circumstantials.

1872 H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 97 The roots, indeed, eliminate nourishment from the soil.

a. transitive. To exclude (a person or thing) from further consideration; to rule out as a possible option, cause, suspect, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration

to put out of ——a1250

to lay awaya1400

to set asidec1407

to lay by1439

to lay asidec1440

to let (something) walkc1450

to set apart?1473

reject1490

seclude?1531

to let go1535

to put offc1540

to set by1592

sepose1593

to think away1620

to look over ——a1640

prescind1650

seposit1657

decognize1659

inconsider1697

to set over1701

shelf1819

sink1820

shelve1847

eliminate1848

to count out1854

discounta1856

defenestrate1917

neg1987

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclude [verb (transitive)] > rule out

eliminate1848

to rule out1866

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > render impossible [verb (transitive)] > eliminate as possibility

eliminate1848

to rule out1866

to factor out1911

1848 J. T. Danson Investig. Condition of People during Harvest 18 Were it possible to eliminate all that is due to every other cause, we should find the varying numbers of both births and deaths..strikingly indicative of corresponding changes in the pecuniary condition of the people.

1889 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Apr. 887/2 No history of syphilis could be obtained, but to eliminate this possibility large doses of iodide of potassium were given for a month.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 72 When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth.

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Aug. Tests..had conclusively eliminated careless smoking as a factor in the blaze.

2004 K. Atkinson Case Hist. (2005) 213 He had been interviewed by the police..and eliminated from their inquiries.

b. transitive. To prevent (a person or team) from proceeding to the next stage of a contest, sports tournament, etc., esp. by defeat; to defeat, knock out.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > win > put out of competition

eliminate1865

to put out1890

sideline1913

1865 Morning Post 12 Dec. 5/5 The result of this second voting was to eliminate Rattazzi from the contest.

1892 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 16 Feb. 3/1 Immediately the music stops, the gamesters endeavour each one to take possession of a chair... The number of players being one in excess of the number of chairs, a player is each round eliminated.

1913 Iola (Kansas) Daily Reg. 16 June 6/5 The Antipodian players eliminated the United States team.

1954 L. Klemantaski tr. G. Fraichard Le Mans Story v. 46 A tremendous multiple pile-up..had eliminated six of the competing cars.

1994 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 2 Nov. 11 g Robinson and Spindelman each had only one candidate to eliminate in the primary to advance to the general election.

2016 Daily Tel. 17 Aug. 5/2 Ian..was eliminated after presenting the judges with a melted baked Alaska.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	eliminate
释义	eliminatev. Brit. /ᵻˈlɪmᵻneɪt/, U.S. /əˈlɪməˌneɪt/, /iˈlɪməˌneɪt/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ēlīmināt-, ēlīmināre. Etymology: < classical Latin ēlīmināt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of ēlīmināre to turn out of doors, to let out (secrets), in post-classical Latin also to remove (5th cent.) < ē- e- prefix² + līmin- , līmen threshold (see limen n.).Compare Middle French eliminer , French éliminer (1495). Specific senses. With sense 1b compare Horace Epistles 1. 5. 25 ne fidos inter amicos sit qui dicta foras eliminet ‘let there not be anyone among trusted friends who carries what is said outside’. In sense 4 apparently after classical Latin ē- e- prefix² and līmin-, līmen threshold (see limen n.). In sense 5 after post-classical Latin eliminare (a1671 in Newton in this sense, in the passage translated in quot. 1736 at sense 5). 1. a. transitive. To thrust out of doors; to expel or eject from a place; to throw out. Now rare or merged with sense 3a.Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel afferreOE warpc1000 outdriveOE wreakc1100 to cast out1297 to cast fortha1382 out-chasec1395 flecchea1400 to shoot forth, out, awaya1400 propel?1440 expulse?a1475 scour1488 out-thrust1532 to catch forthc1540 propulse1548 pulsec1550 unplant1552 to turn out of ——1562 extrude1566 detrude?1567 eliminate1568 deturbate1570 detruse1571 unroost1598 to put by1600 deturb1609 bolt1615 run1631 disembogue1632 out of1656 expel1669 rout1812 to manage (a person) out of1907 1568 Abp. M. Parker Let. 6 Feb. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 314 To help eliminate out of his [sc. God's] house this offendicle. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie To Rdr. sig. ¶¶ 1 The secound sorte thearfore, that eliminate Poets out of their citie gates. 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia x. 107 We could banish and eliminate out of the verge, one of the best Waiters at Court, though one of the worst servants in it, namely, Flattery. 1648 H. Pinnell Word of Prophesy 44 I am not therefore to dissert and relinquish my opinion, because a Convention of men doth eliminate, exterminate and eject it for an errour. 1778 W. Cookworthy & T. Hartley tr. E. Swedenborg Treat. Heaven & Hell i. 5 Should any one [angel], whose belief and confession were so contradictory, come among them, he would immediately be discovered, and eliminated from their society. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 116 From which [room], with the most engaging politeness, she eliminated poor Firkin. 1971 R. Blumhorst in W. McQuade Cities Fit to live In iii. 27/1 A visitor goes past a desk and a smiling receptionist while inconspicuous guards eliminate uninvited and unwanted persons. 2010 D. Bedigian Sesame xxiii. 385 After 1915, the Christian population responsible for such cultivation was forcibly eliminated from the country. †b. transitive. figurative. To divulge (something meant to be kept hidden, as a secret). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > secrets discovera1375 labc1400 bewray1578 blab1582 discabinet1605 eviscerate1607 eliminate1608 to give upa1640 vent1678 betray1734 confide1735 leak1859 to shell out1862 clatfart1913 spill1917 unzip1939 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 115. Let euery man endevour..to be..so setled, that at no time..hee..suffer his tongue to eliminate any part of his thoughts. 1619 J. Hales Let. 1 Jan. 52 in Golden Remains (1659) Whatsoever..we do, is..presently eliminated, and carryed to them. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. x. §4. 100 He did eliminate, and divulge the mysteries of their gods. a1753 R. Newton in tr. Theophrastus Characters (1754) vii. 78 However important to be kept secret, or unseasonable to be eliminated, he could not forbear. 1830 Brit. Critic & Q. Theol. Rev. July 72 Scarcely a pimp, a fiddler, or a buffoon..does not think himself authorized to eliminate the stale jests which he has heard repeated at his patron's table, and to found thereon a Memoir of his contemporaries. †c. transitive. To release from confinement, set free. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from confinement unbindc950 to let freec1000 aletOE to let out1154 loosea1225 slakec1374 loosen1382 to let goc1384 releasec1384 unloosec1400 unlockc1410 dissolvec1420 relievec1450 unloosen?a1475 to set at liberty1509 enlargea1513 to let at large1525 to let loose1530 to turn loose?1566 enfranchise1569 to turn up1573 enfranch1581 unkennel1589 unwind1596 to cast loosec1600 disimmure1611 disimprison1611 unhamper1620 to let abroad1633 unfold1633 disencloister1652 disencage1654 discagea1657 disincarcerate1665 eliminate1745 unspherea1806 unmew1818 unbottle1821 uncage1837 unbag1854 bust1921 1745 E. Young Consolation 30 Eliminate my Spirit, give it Range Through Provinces of Thought yet unexplor'd. 2. a. transitive. Medicine. To expel or remove from the body; spec. to excrete (waste material, foreign or toxic substances, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > letting or forcing out (a substance, etc.) > let or force out (a substance, etc.) [verb (transitive)] eliminate1628 extravasate1669 perspire1699 extravase1703 1628 W. Folkingham Panala Medica x. 65 Panala..is a legitimate Diacatholique, a generall happy Purgatiue eliminating all humors offensiue in qualitie or in quantity. 1695 J. Pechey Store-house Physical Pract. cxviii. 470 When Sweat is promoted much by Cordials and hot Regimen, the Particles are eliminated. 1729 J. B. tr. A. Belloste Hosp. Surgeon Vol. II 14 Eliminate them out of the Body by the perspiratory Passages. 1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. xxxix. 496 A week or two are required to eliminate the mercury from the constitution. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 66/1 The infant just eliminated from the uterus. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iv. 91 Certain plants excrete sweet juice..for the sake of eliminating something injurious from the sap. 1877 I. Rosenthal Gen. Physiol. Muscles & Nerves 87 An acid is formed, which is..again eliminated and carried away by the blood. 1906 H. W. Wiley Infl. Food Preservatives & Artific. Colors on Digestion & Health: Salicyclic Acid & Salicylates (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Chemistry, No. 84 710 Of the total nitrogen ingested in the food 84.5 per cent is eliminated in the urine. 1945 Hygeia May 347/1 The lungs eliminate carbon dioxide. 1977 Audubon May 11/2 Denning bears can survive the winter without eating, drinking, or eliminating body wastes. 2000 Business Day (S. Afr.) 28 Jan. 11/3 The easiest port of exit for toxins is the skin, which eliminates them through sweating during a sauna or steam bath. b. transitive. Chemistry. To detach (a molecule or its components) from a larger molecule in a chemical reaction; to produce (a simple molecule) in an elimination reaction. Often in passive. Cf. elimination n. 6. ΚΠ 1815 M. Donovan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 105 i. 242 As much oxide of lead was liberated from the acetate, as was necessary to the neutrality of the acid eliminated from the compound with magnesia. 1873 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 26 167 Dinitrobenzene was reduced by means of tin and hydrochloric acid; the bromine was eliminated by the nascent hydrogen and paraphenylenediamine was formed. 1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) xlviii. 735 Yeast contains an enzyme, carboxylase, which is capable of eliminating CO₂ from α-ketonic acids. 1957 R. H. Thomson Naturally Occurring Quinones iv. 242 Reduction with hydriodic acid and red phosphorus eliminates two hydroxyl groups. 1981 P. Sykes Guidebk. to Mechanism in Org. Chem. (ed. 5) ix. 251 Where β-H removal can take place from alternative alkyl substituents in ‘onium’ salts,..it is always the least substituted alkene that is eliminated preferentially. 2006 J. M. Hornback Org. Chem. (Internat. Student ed.) xi. 436 Diazo compounds are relatively unstable and readily eliminate nitrogen to form carbenes. 3. a. transitive. gen. To remove entirely, get rid of, do away with (a material or non-material object). Now also euphemistic: to deprive of life; to kill, assassinate. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > do away with or eradicate to do awayOE to do outOE to put awaya1382 outroot?a1425 to set awayc1430 to set apart1455 roota1500 weed1526 ridc1540 root1565 displace1580 root1582 put1584 eradicate1647 eliminate1650 eruncate1651 to knock out1883 1650 tr. J.-F. Senault Christian Man viii. viii. 389 We shall be no longer obliged to instruct the Simple, because the Beatifical Vision will eliminate all Ignorance. 1714 W. Lowth Comm. Isaiah Prel. Diss. 62 To be able to discharge and eliminate the errors. 1753 Universal Mag. Feb. 71/1 The love of life is so intimately blended with our mortal frame, that death alone can eliminate it. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 533 The..tendency of Herodotus to eliminate from the myths the idea of special aid from the gods. 1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 19 Eliminating middle men and intermediate profits. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 306 Miss Brontë finds it needful to eliminate the supernatural. 1937 J. Marquand Thank you, Mr. Moto v. 36 I was proportionately surprised at myself to discover that a part of my character which I thought had been entirely eliminated had come back. 1979 T. Benn Arguments for Socialism ii. 49 We aim to eliminate poverty, to achieve a far greater economic equality and meet urgent social needs. 1998 Time 2 Mar. 31/1 Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline. 2014 Times 10 Oct. 1/2 A cure for diabetes is within reach after scientists developed a treatment that eliminates the need for sufferers to inject insulin. †b. transitive. figurative. To disregard, treat as non-existent; to set aside as irrelevant (certain elements of a question or concept). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration forheedc1275 sequesterc1380 forlaya1400 to lay awaya1400 to put, set or lay byc1425 to lay by1439 to lay asidec1440 to set, lay, put apart1477 bar1481 to lay apart1526 to throw out1576 disclude1586 to fling aside1587 to fling away1587 exclude1593 daff1598 to throw by1644 eliminate1850 to write off1861 to filter out1934 slam-dunk1975 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. ii. 40 I forgot the Corsair's sinful trade..I honestly eliminated the bad element. 1857 W. M. Thackeray Virginians (1858) I. vi. 47 The logicians of St. James's and Versailles wisely chose to consider the matter in dispute as a European and not a Red-man's question, eliminating him from the argument, but employing his tomahawk as it might serve the turn of either litigant. 1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) i. 3 We must eliminate these customs from our conception of that condition. †4. transitive. To pass the threshold of, come out of. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out of [verb (transitive)] to come out of ——lOE to carve (a knight) out ofc1405 eliminatea1657 a1657 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 16 Th'art Hood all ore And ne'r Eliminat'st thy Dore. 5. transitive. Mathematics. To remove (a constant, variable, factor, etc.) from an equation, set of equations, or matrix by algebraic manipulation; esp. to remove (a variable) from a system of simultaneous equations by combining two or more of the equations. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > algebra > perform algebra [verb (transitive)] > eliminate quantity or simplify cancel1543 lessen1668 destroy1706 eliminate1736 exterminate1743 rationalize1816 1736 J. Colson tr. I. Newton Method of Fluxions 131 And by the third 2vv - 4a = 4ay, or (eliminating [L. eliminando] v) ^v/ _4s - 1 = z. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. (at cited word) If by means of one of these we eliminate p from the rest, the process..would allow of our eliminating both x and y by one equation only. 1875 I. Todhunter Algebra for Schools 89 By this process we are said to eliminate the unknown quantity which does not appear in the single equation. 1952 D. R. Hartree Numerical Anal. viii. 158 The coefficient a_jk..is called the ‘pivotal coefficient’ or ‘pivot’ for this elimination; it is the coefficient, in the pivotal equation, of the variable to be eliminated. 2008 J. P. Cullerne & A. Machacek Lang. Physics ii. 35 We can combine these two equations to eliminatet by calculating the scalar product g · s. †6. transitive. To disengage, isolate, or extract (particular elements) from a compound; to disentangle (a fact or principle) from a mass of confused details; (hence) to elicit, deduce. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from main body > an element from mass of detail eliminate1843 1843 Foreign & Colonial Q. Rev. 2 337 It being..impossible that such infinite ideas as God, eternity, etc...could ever be eliminated by either the will, the reason, or the finite evidence of the finite senses. 1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. iv. i. §2. 455 We have sought to eliminate the truth by exhibiting nature in its full and living action. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. ii. 510 He would..eliminate the main fact from all the confusing circumstantials. 1872 H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 97 The roots, indeed, eliminate nourishment from the soil. 7. a. transitive. To exclude (a person or thing) from further consideration; to rule out as a possible option, cause, suspect, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration to put out of ——a1250 to lay awaya1400 to set asidec1407 to lay by1439 to lay asidec1440 to let (something) walkc1450 to set apart?1473 reject1490 seclude?1531 to let go1535 to put offc1540 to set by1592 sepose1593 to think away1620 to look over ——a1640 prescind1650 seposit1657 decognize1659 inconsider1697 to set over1701 shelf1819 sink1820 shelve1847 eliminate1848 to count out1854 discounta1856 defenestrate1917 neg1987 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclude [verb (transitive)] > rule out eliminate1848 to rule out1866 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > render impossible [verb (transitive)] > eliminate as possibility eliminate1848 to rule out1866 to factor out1911 1848 J. T. Danson Investig. Condition of People during Harvest 18 Were it possible to eliminate all that is due to every other cause, we should find the varying numbers of both births and deaths..strikingly indicative of corresponding changes in the pecuniary condition of the people. 1889 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Apr. 887/2 No history of syphilis could be obtained, but to eliminate this possibility large doses of iodide of potassium were given for a month. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 72 When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth. 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Aug. Tests..had conclusively eliminated careless smoking as a factor in the blaze. 2004 K. Atkinson Case Hist. (2005) 213 He had been interviewed by the police..and eliminated from their inquiries. b. transitive. To prevent (a person or team) from proceeding to the next stage of a contest, sports tournament, etc., esp. by defeat; to defeat, knock out. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > win > put out of competition eliminate1865 to put out1890 sideline1913 1865 Morning Post 12 Dec. 5/5 The result of this second voting was to eliminate Rattazzi from the contest. 1892 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 16 Feb. 3/1 Immediately the music stops, the gamesters endeavour each one to take possession of a chair... The number of players being one in excess of the number of chairs, a player is each round eliminated. 1913 Iola (Kansas) Daily Reg. 16 June 6/5 The Antipodian players eliminated the United States team. 1954 L. Klemantaski tr. G. Fraichard Le Mans Story v. 46 A tremendous multiple pile-up..had eliminated six of the competing cars. 1994 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 2 Nov. 11 g Robinson and Spindelman each had only one candidate to eliminate in the primary to advance to the general election. 2016 Daily Tel. 17 Aug. 5/2 Ian..was eliminated after presenting the judges with a melted baked Alaska. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1568
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