eliminating

present participle and gerund of eliminate

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