eliminate Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb terminate, end, or take out
extinguish; get rid of; do away with.
- Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
- Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
- eliminate my debts
verb do away with
rid of; obviate.
verb kill in large numbers
annihilate; carry off; decimate; wipe out; extinguish; eradicate.
- the plague wiped out an entire population
verb dismiss from consideration or a contest
winnow out; reject; rule out.
- John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi
- This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration
verb eliminate from the body
excrete; pass; egest.
- Pass a kidney stone
verb remove from a contest or race
- The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race
verb remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations

L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See Limit.

imperfect & past participle Eliminated ; present participle & verbal noun Eliminating

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.
(Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
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.
To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. Recent, and not well authorized
(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.