eliminationnoun [ U ]
uk/iˌlɪm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us/iˌlɪm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/C2 the process of removing something:
the elimination of disease/pain
their elimination from the competition
by a process of elimination
by removing from several possible answers the ones that are unlikely to be correct until only one is left:
We eventually found the answer by a process of elimination.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw sth away/out
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- weed
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