eliminate
Verb
- terminate, end, or take out
- "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
- "eliminate my debts"
- do away with
- kill in large numbers
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
- eliminate from the body
- remove from a contest or race
- "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
- remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
- To kill (a person or animal).
- To excrete (waste products).
- To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Examples
- a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
- 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.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
annihilate, carry off, decimate, do away with, egest, eradicate, excrete, extinguish, get rid of, obviate, pass, reject, rid of, rule out, winnow out, wipe out, abolish, abrogate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, boo-boo, break the seal, cack, choke a darkie, crap, dash, decompose, defecate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, do a number two, do one's ease, do one's easement, drite, drop a bomb, drop a chalupa, drop a deuce, drop anchor, drop the kids off at the pool, dung, ease oneself, eliminate, erase, exrementize, exterminate, extirpate, feceate, fuck, harry, have a shit, hit the head, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, micturate, move one's bowels, neutralize, nuke, obliterate, pass water, pee, piddle, pinch a loaf, pinch one off, piss, poo, pooh, poop, pull down, pulverize, race, ravage, raze, remove, ruin, sharn, shart, shiss, shit, shite, slash, stamp out, stool, take a crap, take a dump, take a leak, take a piss, take a shit, take a whiz, take the Browns to the Super Bowl, total, unbreed, uncoil, unexist, unmake, uproot, urinate, void, void one's bowels, waste, wee, wee wee, whiz, widdle, wipe off, wreck
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
eliminate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordeliminate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
eliminate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary