Eliminate

/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.

The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]

[…] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.

“The Budget proposes eliminating Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants (Title II State grants), a program that provides formula funds to States to improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other schools leaders. SEI grants are poorly targeted and funds are spread too thinly to have a meaningful impact on student outcomes.

Last year, the company eliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go.

a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies

In one study, 65.8% of the cat owners relinquishing a cat thought that their cat eliminated outside the litter box or destroyed furniture to spite them.

Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.

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Word Forms

• eliminates
• eliminating
• eliminated

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