eliminate

Meaning

1. (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
2. (transitive) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
3. (slang, transitive) To kill (a person or animal).
4. (ambitransitive) To excrete (waste products).
5. (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
6. To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Synonyms

remove

get rid of

eradicate

destroy

annihilate

exterminate

wipe out

extinguish

erase

kill

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exclude

delete

obliterate

purge

decimate

drive away

expunge

do away with

abolish

waste

excrete

murder

efface

extirpate

take away

reject

rid of

obviate

liquidate

blot out

clear

terminate

weed out

carry off

cancel

take out

winnow out

strike out

cut off

dispel

take off

omit

amputate

overthrow

stop

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clean up

finish off

knock off

pass

discard

Translations

éliminer

eliminare

supprimer

eliminar

eliminieren

umbringen

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uccidere

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eliminar

sopprimere

eliminar

sterminare

vernichten

ausscheiden

tuer

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rimuovere

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēlīminātus, perfect passive participle of ēlīminō (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē- + līmen (“a threshold”, līmin- in compounds) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”); see also English limit and limen.