eliminate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   terminate, end, or take out

   Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics

2. 2
   verb

   remove from a contest or race

   The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race

3. 3
   verb

   To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To kill (a person or animal).

   a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies

5. 5
   verb

   To excrete (waste products).

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).

   Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.

7. 7
   verb

   eliminate from the body

8. 8
   verb

   kill in large numbers

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.