eliminate.
To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
Meaning & usage
To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
To kill (a person or animal).
a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
To excrete (waste products).
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.
To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Where this word comes from
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.
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