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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ELIM'INATE, v.t. [L. elimino; e or ex and limen, threshhold.]
1. To thrust out of doors.
2. To expel; to thrust out; to discharge, or throw off; to set at liberty.
This detains secretions which nature finds it necessary to eliminate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" [syn: extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with]
2: do away with [syn: obviate, rid of, eliminate] [ant: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take]
3: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]
4: dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration" [syn: rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject]
5: eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: excrete, egest, eliminate, pass]
6: remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
7: remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations

Merriam Webster's

verb (-nated; -nating) Etymology: Latin eliminatus, past participle of eliminare, from e- + limin-, limen threshold Date: 1568 transitive verb 1. a. to put an end to or get rid of ; remove, eradicate <the need to eliminate poverty> <eliminate errors> b. to remove from consideration <cannot yet eliminate him as a suspect> c. to remove from further competition by defeating <the team was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs> 2. to expel (as waste) from the living body 3. to cause (as an unknown) to disappear by combining two or more mathematical equations intransitive verb to expel waste from the living body • eliminative adjective • eliminator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 remove, get rid of. 2 exclude from consideration; ignore as irrelevant. 3 exclude from further participation in a competition etc. on defeat. 4 Physiol. discharge (waste matter). 5 Chem. remove (a simpler substance) from a compound. 6 Algebra remove (a quantity) by combining equations. Derivatives: eliminable adj. elimination n. eliminator n. eliminatory adj. Etymology: L eliminare (as E-, limen liminis threshold)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Eliminate E*lim"i*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eliminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliminating.] [L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See Limit.] 1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. --Young. 2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. --Lowth. 4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized] 5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(eliminates, eliminating, eliminated) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. To eliminate something, especially something you do not want or need, means to remove it completely. (FORMAL) The Sex Discrimination Act has not eliminated discrimination in employment... If you think you may be allergic to a food or drink, eliminate it from your diet. VERB: V n, V n from n • elimination ...the prohibition and elimination of chemical weapons. N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n 2. When a person or team is eliminated from a competition, they are defeated and so take no further part in the competition. I was eliminated from the 400 metres in the semi-finals... If you are eliminated in the show-jumping then you are out of the complete competition. = knock out V-PASSIVE: be V-ed from n, be V-ed 3. If someone says that they have eliminated an enemy, they mean that they have killed them. By using the word 'eliminate', they are trying to make the action sound more positive than if they used the word 'kill'. He declared war on the government and urged right-wingers to eliminate their opponents... VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Exclude, remove, expel, reject, eradicate, erase, thrust out, drive out, get clear of, get rid of.

Moby Thesaurus

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