# eliminate
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
* (US) IPA: /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, /ɪˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/, /iˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, /iˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/
* (weak vowel merger) IPA: /əˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/
* (General Australian) IPA: /əˈlɪm.ɪ.næɪt/
** Audio (Queensland):(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
** 1949, Proceedings of the ... Consolidated Convention of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America, page 159:The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
** 1977 June 13, Computerworld, volume 11, number 24, page 91:The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]
** 2002, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Wolfgang Fritz, Ruby Roy Dholakia, Global E-commerce and Online Marketing: Watching the Evolution:[…] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.
** 2020 August 4, Jason Schreier, “Blizzard Employees Share Salaries With Each Other to Protest Wage Disparities”, in Time‎: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
* (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, Thesaurus:defecate
** 2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 7:In one study, 65.8% of the cat owners relinquishing a cat thought that their cat eliminated outside the litter box or destroyed furniture to spite them.
* (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.

#### Hyponyms

* give the chop to
* give the boot to
* give the sack to
* give the walking papers to

#### Derived terms

* eliminatrix

#### Related terms

* eliminable
* eliminant
* elimination
* eliminative
* eliminator
* eliminatory

#### Further reading

* “eliminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “eliminate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### References

* ↑ “FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2011 April 14 (last accessed), archived from the original on 8 March 2011

### Anagrams

* itameline

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

eliminate
* inflection of eliminare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

eliminate f pl
* feminine plural of eliminato

### Anagrams

* eliantemi

## Latin
### Verb

ēlīmināte
* second-person plural present active imperative of ēlīminō

## Spanish
### Verb

eliminate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of eliminar combined with te