eliminate

UK/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/US/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/

eliminate verb: to completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.

Verb

eliminate (third-person singular simple present eliminates, present participle eliminating, simple past and past participle eliminated)

(transitive) 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.1949, Proceedings of the ... Consolidated Convention of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America, page 159
- 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; […]1977 June 13, Computerworld, volume 11, number 24, page 91
Synonyms:

abrogate, abolish, erase, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out
(transitive) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)

Synonyms:

neutralize
(slang, transitive) To kill (a person or animal).
- a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
(ambitransitive) 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.2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 7
Synonyms:

break the seal, hit the head, micturate, pass water, pee, piddle, piss, slash, take a leak, take a piss
(transitive) 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.

eliminate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

eliminate in Bengali

বাছা, নিষ্কাশন করা, পরিহার করা, এড়ান, দূর করা, অপসারিত করা

eliminate in Malayalam

eliminate: ഇല്ലാതാക്കുക illātākkuka
to eliminate: പോക്കുക pōkkuka

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eliminate in Kannada: ತೆಗೆದುಹಾಕು, ತೊಲಗಿಸು, ವರ್ಜಿಸು, ತಗುಳ್ಚಿಸು

Examples of eliminate in a sentence

[…] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.2002, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Wolfgang Fritz, Ruby Roy Dholakia, Global E-commerce and Online Marketing: Watching the Evolution:
Flutter, which is present in most iris-supported lenses, is minimized or virtually eliminated.1965, Nicholas G. Douvas, New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology, Symposium on Cataracts, Mosby, page 133:
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.2020 August 4, Jason Schreier, “Blizzard Employees Share Salaries With Each Other to Protest Wage Disparities”, in Time, archived from the...

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Synonyms of eliminate

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Forms of eliminate

third-person singular present	eliminates
present participle	eliminating
past participle	eliminated
past	eliminated

Past tense of eliminate: eliminated

Origin of eliminate

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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Questions about eliminate

What does eliminate mean?: Eliminate means to completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
What is eliminate in Tamil?: Eliminate in Tamil is நீக்கு, நீக்குதல். See Eliminate meaning in Tamil.
How do you use eliminate in a sentence?: […] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.
What part of speech is eliminate?: Eliminate is a verb.
How do you pronounce eliminate?: Eliminate is pronounced /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of eliminate?: The past tense of eliminate is eliminated.

Words near eliminate in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: eliminate (page history and authors); eliminate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); eliminate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); eliminate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഇല്ലാതാക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); eliminate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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