eliminate

Definition of eliminate in English English dictionary: To excrete (waste products); to exclude (from investigation or from further competition)
John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.; To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists; To kill (a person or animal); to separate and cast aside; {v} to expel or set at liberty; do away with; To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty; remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race; 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; {f} remove, get rid of; To eliminate something, especially something you do not want or need, means to remove it completely. 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. + elimination elimi·na·tion the prohibition and elimination of chemical weapons; kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics" remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race; dismiss from consideration; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"; terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration; kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"; To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion; eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"; To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system; 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 cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity; 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
elimination: The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories
elimination: The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition
elimination: The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition
elimination: The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities
eliminative: Of, pertaining to, or producing elimination
The eliminative power of the storm.
elimination: {n} a forcing out or expelling
Elimination: extermination
eliminated: Simple past and past participle of to eliminate
eliminates: third-person singular of eliminate
eliminating: present participle of eliminate
elimination: The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off
elimination: the murder of a competitor
elimination: The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction
elimination: a type of paintball game or when a player is marked with a paintball and the break is a size of a quarer An elimination game is when two teams battle it out until everyone on one team is eliminated
elimination: When dog and handler are no longer eligible to continue the course for competition, but at the judges discretion may complete the course or continue for the duration of the course time Elimination will follow three refusals/run by, dog taking the wrong course, proceeding to the next obstacle before satisfactory completion of the preceding obstacle, if the dog is out of control, runs out of the ring, fouls the ring, is aggressive, handled or trained by the handler
elimination: The process by which drugs and metabolites are removed from the body
elimination: [See Eliminate, 4
elimination: analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives
elimination: the bodily process of discharging waste matter
elimination: The act, process, or an instance of eliminating or discharging, as the removal from a molecule of the constituents of a simpler molecule Fr example, ethylene is formed by the elimination of water from ethanol ADVANCE \x 540
elimination: Similar to the Miss & Out only riders are eliminated until only 1 remains
elimination: Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities
elimination: WHO defines "elimination" of leprosy as the reaching of a prevalence below one case per 10 000 population
elimination: Reduction of case transmission to a predetermined very low level Compare eradication (of disease)
elimination: {i} removal, act of getting rid of; omission, act of leaving out; process of solving simultaneous equations by removing the variables (Algebra)
elimination: the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
elimination: The process whereby a substance or other material is expelled from the body (or a defined part thereof), usually by a process of extrusion or exclusion but sometimes through metabolic transformation The combination of chemical degradation of a xenobiotic in the body and excretion by the intestine, kidneys, lungs, skin, in sweat, expired air, milk, semen, menstrual fluid or secreted fluids
elimination: a type of paintball game or when a player is marked with a paintball and the break is the size of a quarter An elimination game is when two teams battle it out until everyone on one team is eliminated
elimination: the act of removing or getting rid of something
elimination: One of the final processes in the harmonic analysis of tides in which preliminary values for the harmonic constants of a number of constituents are cleared of the residual effects each other
elimination: This is an endplay in which two things can be achieved In one instance, the endplay could effect that the neutral suits are all played from both the hand of the declarer and dummy, becoming the last of such plays This instance of endplay is sometimes called a Strip Play In the second instance, the endplay requires the declarer to allow a defender to win the trick, in order that this particular defender must lead a card which is desired by the declarer This instance of endplay, when the defender is forced to play the desired card, is sometimes referred to as a Throw-In Play
elimination: Chemical reaction where two groups such as chlorine and hydrogen are lost from adjacent carbon atoms and a double bond is formed in their place
elimination: The act of expelling or throwing off the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories
elimination: The expelling of a substance or other material from the body (or a defined part thereof), usually be a process of extrusion or exclusion, but sometimes through metabolic transformation
elimination: The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
elimination: ] the murder of a competitor the act of removing or getting rid of something the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives the bodily process of discharging waste matter
eliminative: {s} tending to eliminate, tending to remove
eliminative: Relating to, or carrying on, elimination
eliminator: {i} person or thing which eliminates or removes
eliminator: In sport, an eliminator is a game which decides which team or player is to go through to the next stage of a particular competition. a world title eliminator
eliminator: an agent that eliminates something

eliminate

Hyphenation

e·li·mi·nate

Turkish pronunciation

îlîmıneyt

Synonyms

give the chop to, give the boot to, give the sack to, give the walking papers to, vote off, annihilate, blot out, bump off, cancel, cast out, count out, cut out, defeat, discard, discharge

Antonyms

accept, choose, include, keep, ratify, sanction, welcome

Pronunciation

/əˈləməˌnāt/ /ɪˈlɪməˌneɪt/

Etymology

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