eliminate
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English
Etymology
From Latin ēlīminātus, past participle of ēlīmināre (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē (“out”) + līmen (“a threshold”), akin to līmes (“a boundary”); see English limit and limen.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, /ɪˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/, /iˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, /iˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /əˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /əˈlɪm.ə.næɪt/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
eliminate (third-person singular simple present eliminates, present participle eliminating, simple past and past participle eliminated)
- (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- Synonyms: abrogate, abolish; see also Thesaurus:destroy
- 2020 August 4, Jason Schreier, “Blizzard Employees Share Salaries With Each Other to Protest Wage Disparities”, in Time[2]:
- 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.
- (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)
- Synonym: neutralize
- (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
- a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
- (transitive, intransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, Thesaurus:defecate
- (transitive) 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.
- (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.[1]
Hyponyms
Related terms
Translations
completely destroy
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kill
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excrete
exclude (from investigation or from further competition) — see exclude
eliminate the effects of intercompany transactions in a consolidation statement
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Further reading
- “eliminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “eliminate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
References
- ^ “FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2011 April 14 (last accessed), archived from the original on 8 March 2011
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
eliminate
- inflection of eliminare:
Etymology 2
Participle
eliminate f pl
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
ēlīmināte
Spanish
Verb
eliminate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of eliminar combined with te
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