eliminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/
ipa: /iˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
ipa: /iˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/
ipa: /əˈlɪm.ɪ.næɪt/
Forms: form: eliminates
form: eliminating
form: eliminated
form: eliminated
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1949, Proceedings of the ... Consolidated Convention of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America, page 159:
text: 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; […]
ref: 1977 June 13, Computerworld, volume 11, number 24, page 91:
text: […] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.
ref: 2002, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Wolfgang Fritz, Ruby Roy Dholakia, Global E-commerce and Online Marketing: Watching the Evolution:
text: “The Budget proposes eliminating Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants (Title II State grants), a program that provides formula funds to States to improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other schools leaders. SEI grants are poorly targeted and funds are spread too thinly to have a meaningful impact on student outcomes.
ref: 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN:
text: 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.
ref: 2020 August 4, Jason Schreier, “Blizzard Employees Share Salaries With Each Other to Protest Wage Disparities”, in Time:
synonyms: word: abrogate
word: abolish
word: erase
word: destroy
word: annihilate
word: aerosolize
word: atomize
word: benothing
word: bewreck
word: blot out
word: blotto
word: dash
word: decompose
word: demolish
word: desolate
word: devastate
word: diffuse
word: disintegrate
word: disperse
word: dissolve
word: eliminate
word: eradicate
word: erase
word: exterminate
word: extinguish
word: extirpate
word: fuck
word: harry
word: jazz
word: lay waste
word: level
word: liquidate
word: nuke
word: obliterate
word: pull down
word: pulverize
word: race
word: raze
word: ravage
word: remove
word: ruin
word: stamp out
word: total
word: unbreed
word: unexist
word: unmake
word: uproot
word: waste
word: wipe out
word: wipe off
word: wreck
glosses: To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: neutralize
glosses: To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
examples: text: a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
glosses: To kill (a person or animal).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 7:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: word: break the seal
word: hit the head
word: micturate
word: pass water
word: pee
word: piddle
word: piss
word: slash
word: take a leak
word: take a piss
word: take a whiz
word: urinate
word: void
word: wee
word: wee wee
word: widdle
word: whiz
word: boo-boo
word: cack
word: choke a darkie
word: crap
word: defecate
word: do one's ease
word: ease oneself
word: do a number two
word: do one's easement
word: drite
word: drop a bomb
word: drop a chalupa
word: drop a deuce
word: drop anchor
word: drop the kids off at the pool
word: dung
raw_tags: of animals
word: exrementize
word: feceate
word: have a shit
word: move one's bowels
word: pinch a loaf
word: pinch one off
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: sharn
word: shart
word: shiss
word: shit
word: shite
word: stool
word: take a dump
word: take a shit
word: take a crap
word: take the Browns to the Super Bowl
word: uncoil
word: void one's bowels
glosses: To excrete (waste products).
examples: text: Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
text: John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
glosses: To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: 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