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eliminate
e·lim·i·nate E0088300 (ĭ-lĭm′ə-nāt′)tr.v. e·lim·i·nat·ed, e·lim·i·nat·ing, e·lim·i·nates 1. To get rid of; remove: an effort to eliminate homelessness; eliminated his enemies.2. a. To leave out or omit from consideration; reject: For now, let's eliminate from the discussion the possibility of failure.b. To remove from consideration by defeating, as in a contest.3. Mathematics To remove (an unknown quantity) by combining equations.4. Physiology To excrete (bodily wastes).
[Latin ēlīmināre, ēlīmināt-, to banish : ē-, ex-, ex- + līmen, līmin-, threshold.]
e·lim′i·na′tion n.e·lim′i·na′tive, e·lim′i·na·to′ry (-nə-tôr′ē) adj.e·lim′i·na′tor n.Synonyms: eliminate, eradicate, extirpate
These verbs mean to nullify someone as a factor or cause an activity or condition to come to an end, especially by using drastic methods: eliminated all opposition; eradicate guerrilla activity; policies that attempt to extirpate drug abuse.eliminate (ɪˈlɪmɪˌneɪt) vb (tr) 1. to remove or take out; get rid of2. to reject as trivial or irrelevant; omit from consideration3. to remove (a competitor, team, etc) from a contest, usually by defeat4. slang to murder in a cold-blooded manner5. (Physiology) physiol to expel (waste matter) from the body6. (Mathematics) maths to remove (an unknown variable) from two or more simultaneous equations[C16: from Latin ēlīmināre to turn out of the house, from e- out + līmen threshold] eˈliminable adj eˌliminaˈbility n eˈliminant n eˈliminative, eˈliminatory adj eˈlimiˌnator nUsage: Eliminate is sometimes wrongly used to talk about avoiding the repetition of something undesirable: we must prevent (not eliminate) further mistakes of this kinde•lim•i•nate (ɪˈlɪm əˌneɪt)
v.t. -nat•ed, -nat•ing. 1. to get rid of; eradicate. 2. to omit; leave out. 3. to defeat in a contest. 4. to kill; slaughter. 5. Physiol. to expel, as waste, from the body. 6. to remove (a quantity) from an equation by elimination. [1560–70; < Latin ēlīminātus, past participle of ēlīmināre to turn out of doors] e•lim′i•na`tive, adj. eliminate
Past participle: eliminated
Gerund: eliminating
| Imperative |
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| eliminate | | eliminate |
| Present |
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| I eliminate | | you eliminate | | he/she/it eliminates | | we eliminate | | you eliminate | | they eliminate |
| Preterite |
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| I eliminated | | you eliminated | | he/she/it eliminated | | we eliminated | | you eliminated | | they eliminated |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am eliminating | | you are eliminating | | he/she/it is eliminating | | we are eliminating | | you are eliminating | | they are eliminating |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have eliminated | | you have eliminated | | he/she/it has eliminated | | we have eliminated | | you have eliminated | | they have eliminated |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was eliminating | | you were eliminating | | he/she/it was eliminating | | we were eliminating | | you were eliminating | | they were eliminating |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had eliminated | | you had eliminated | | he/she/it had eliminated | | we had eliminated | | you had eliminated | | they had eliminated |
| Future |
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| I will eliminate | | you will eliminate | | he/she/it will eliminate | | we will eliminate | | you will eliminate | | they will eliminate |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have eliminated | | you will have eliminated | | he/she/it will have eliminated | | we will have eliminated | | you will have eliminated | | they will have eliminated |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be eliminating | | you will be eliminating | | he/she/it will be eliminating | | we will be eliminating | | you will be eliminating | | they will be eliminating |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been eliminating | | you have been eliminating | | he/she/it has been eliminating | | we have been eliminating | | you have been eliminating | | they have been eliminating |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been eliminating | | you will have been eliminating | | he/she/it will have been eliminating | | we will have been eliminating | | you will have been eliminating | | they will have been eliminating |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
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| I had been eliminating | | you had been eliminating | | he/she/it had been eliminating | | we had been eliminating | | you had been eliminating | | they had been eliminating |
| Conditional |
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| I would eliminate | | you would eliminate | | he/she/it would eliminate | | we would eliminate | | you would eliminate | | they would eliminate |
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| I would have eliminated | | you would have eliminated | | he/she/it would have eliminated | | we would have eliminated | | you would have eliminated | | they would have eliminated |
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. | eliminate - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"do away with, get rid of, extinguishcancel out, wipe out - wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"decouple - reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)decouple - eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)obliterate - do away with completely, without leaving a traceknock out - eliminate; "knock out a target"drown - get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"cut out - delete or remove; "Cut out the extra text"; "cut out the newspaper article"prune, rationalize, rationalise, cut - weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"extinguish, snuff out - put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"exclude, leave out, omit, leave off, except, take out - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house" | | 2. | eliminate - do away withobviate, rid ofclose out, rule out, preclude - make impossible, especially beforehand | | 3. | eliminate - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"annihilate, eradicate, decimate, wipe out, carry off, extinguishdecimate - kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armieskill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" | | 4. | eliminate - 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"winnow out, rule out, reject | | 5. | eliminate - eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"egest, excrete, passperspire, sudate, sweat - excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat"exudate, exude, ooze out, transude, ooze - release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores"make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, piss, wee, wee-wee, urinate, piddle, puddle, make - eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"urinate - pass after the manner of urine; "The sick men urinated blood"void, empty, evacuate - excrete or discharge from the bodyca-ca, crap, defecate, take a crap, take a shit, shit, stool, make - have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"barf, be sick, puke, regorge, retch, sick, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up, disgorge, cat, spue, spew, regurgitate, chuck, honk, purge, cast - eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"eject, expel, release, exhaust, discharge - eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas" | | 6. | eliminate - remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" | | 7. | eliminate - remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equationsmath, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangementremove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
eliminateverb1. remove, end, stop, withdraw, get rid of, abolish, cut out, dispose of, terminate, banish, eradicate, put an end to, do away with, dispense with, stamp out, exterminate, get shot of, wipe from the face of the earth The Act has not eliminated discrimination in employment.2. knock out, drop, reject, exclude, axe (informal), get rid of, expel, leave out, throw out, omit, put out, eject I was eliminated from the 400 metres in the semifinals.3. (Slang) murder, kill, do in (slang), take out (slang), terminate, slay, blow away (slang, chiefly U.S.), liquidate, annihilate, exterminate, bump off (slang), rub out (U.S. slang), waste (informal) They claimed that 87,000 `reactionaries' had been eliminated.eliminateverb1. To get rid of, especially by banishment or execution:eradicate, liquidate, purge, remove, wipe out.Idioms: do away with, put an end to.2. To keep from being admitted, included, or considered:bar, count out, debar, except, exclude, keep out, rule out, shut out.3. To take or leave out:drop, omit, remove.4. To discharge (wastes or foreign substances) from the body:evacuate, excrete.Medicine: purge.Translationseliminate (iˈlimineit) verb to get rid of; to omit or exclude. He was eliminated from the tennis match in the first round. 消除，淘汰 消除，排除，淘汰 eˌlimiˈnation noun 排除，淘汰 排除，淘汰 eliminate
eliminate (someone or something) from (something)To remove or take someone or something away from something. A loss tonight would eliminate my team from the playoffs. We need to eliminate all dairy from this recipe because Jim is a vegan.See also: eliminateeliminatedslang Murdered. Ray eliminated the informant, just as the boss told him to.See also: eliminateeliminate someone or something from somethingto remove someone or something from something. We had to eliminate Jeff from the list. The cook eliminated veal from the menu. She sought to eliminate herself from consideration.See also: eliminateeliminated1. mod. killed. When Frank is eliminated, there will be no competition. 2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. How can anybody get eliminated on four beers? See also: eliminateEncyclopediaSeeEliminationeliminate
eliminate (ĭ-lĭm′ə-nāt′)tr.v. elimi·nated, elimi·nating, elimi·nates 1. To get rid of; remove: an effort to eliminate homelessness; eliminated his enemies.2. a. To leave out or omit from consideration; reject: For now, let's eliminate from the discussion the possibility of failure.b. To remove from consideration by defeating, as in a contest.3. Mathematics To remove (an unknown quantity) by combining equations.4. Physiology To excrete (bodily wastes).
e·lim′i·na′tion n.e·lim′i·na′tive, e·lim′i·na·to′ry (-nə-tôr′ē) adj.e·lim′i·na′tor n.eliminate (ē-lĭm′ĭ-nāt) To expel; to rid the body of waste material. eliminate
Related to eliminate: illuminatiSynonyms for eliminateverb removeSynonyms- remove
- end
- stop
- withdraw
- get rid of
- abolish
- cut out
- dispose of
- terminate
- banish
- eradicate
- put an end to
- do away with
- dispense with
- stamp out
- exterminate
- get shot of
- wipe from the face of the earth
verb knock outSynonyms- knock out
- drop
- reject
- exclude
- axe
- get rid of
- expel
- leave out
- throw out
- omit
- put out
- eject
verb murderSynonyms- murder
- kill
- do in
- take out
- terminate
- slay
- blow away
- liquidate
- annihilate
- exterminate
- bump off
- rub out
- waste
Synonyms for eliminateverb to get rid of, especially by banishment or executionSynonyms- eradicate
- liquidate
- purge
- remove
- wipe out
verb to keep from being admitted, included, or consideredSynonyms- bar
- count out
- debar
- except
- exclude
- keep out
- rule out
- shut out
verb to take or leave outSynonymsverb to discharge (wastes or foreign substances) from the bodySynonyms |