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e⋅lim⋅i⋅nate
[i-lim-uh-neyt]
–verb (used with object), -nat⋅ed, -nat⋅ing.
| 1. | to remove or get rid of, esp. as being in some way undesirable: to eliminate risks; to eliminate hunger. |
| 2. | to omit, esp. as being unimportant or irrelevant; leave out: I have eliminated all statistical tables, which are of interest only to the specialist. |
| 3. | to remove from further consideration or competition, esp. by defeating in a contest. |
| 4. | to eradicate or kill: to eliminate the enemy. |
| 5. | Physiology. to void or expel from an organism. |
| 6. | Mathematics. to remove (a quantity) from an equation by elimination. |
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Eliminate
E*lim"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eliminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliminating.] [L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See Limit.]1. 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. 2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. 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. 4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized] 5. (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.
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Language Translation for : eliminate
Spanish:
eliminar,
German:
ausschließen, ausscheiden,
Japanese:
除く
eliminate
1568, from L. eliminatus, pp. of eliminare "thrust out of doors, expel," from ex limine "off the threshold," from ex "off, out" + limine, abl. of limen "threshold." Used literally at first; sense of "exclude" first attested 1714; sense of "expel waste from the body" is c.1795.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: elim·i·nate
Pronunciation: -"nAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -nat·ed; -nat·ing
: toexpel (as waste) from the living body
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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