eliminate

From Latin eliminatus, past participle of eliminare (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from e (“out”) + limen (“a threshold”), akin to limes (“a boundary”); see limit.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɪməneɪt/

eliminate (third-person singular simple present eliminates, present participle eliminating, simple past and past participle eliminated)

1. (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
2. (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
3. (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
4. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).

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

   John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.

5. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.[1]

• See also Thesaurus:destroy, abrogate, abolish
• (excrete): See Thesaurus:urinate and Thesaurus:defecate

• eliminable
• eliminant
• elimination
• eliminative
• eliminator
• eliminatory

• give the chop to
• give the boot to
• give the sack to
• give the walking papers to
• vote off

• eliminate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• eliminate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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eliminate

1. second-person plural present indicative of eliminare
2. second-person plural imperative of eliminare
3. feminine plural of eliminato

ēlīmināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēlīminō