eliminateverb
uk/iˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/us/iˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/C1 [ T ] to remove or take away someone or something:
A move towards healthy eating could help eliminate heart disease.
We eliminated the possibility that it could have been an accident.
The police eliminated him from their enquiries.
C1 [ T often passive ] to defeat someone so that they cannot continue in a competition:
He was eliminated in the third round of the competition.
[ T ] slang to murder someone:
A police officer was accused of helping a drug gang eliminate rivals.
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- Water helps eliminate toxins from your system.
- Police have eliminated him from their enquiries.
- The virus can never be entirely eliminated from the body.
- The programme will minimize, though not eliminate, the problem.
- She hired an assassin to eliminate her rival.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- haemodialysis
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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