eliminate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: eliminate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
eliminate v terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" Synonym(s): extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with do away with Synonym(s): obviate, rid of, eliminate Antonym(s): ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" Synonym(s): eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration" Synonym(s): rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" Synonym(s): excrete, egest, eliminate, pass 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eliminate \Elim"inate\, 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.