eliminating

Verb

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

1. (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

   Synonyms:

   abrogate, abolish, erase, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out

2. (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

3. (slang, transitive) To kill (a person or animal).
   • a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
4. (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

5. (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
   • Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
6. To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.