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Past tense of eliminate

regular verb

The past tense of eliminate is eliminated. The past participle is also eliminated.

Forms of eliminate

Base form (V1)eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
Past tense (V2)eliminated
Past participle (V3)eliminated
Present participleeliminating
Third person singulareliminates

Eliminated in a sentence

  • 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...
  • My favourite singer wasn't eliminated, so she's still in the running!From the entry in the running
  • Most inhaled uranium that reaches the lungs is eliminated via mucociliary clearance.From the entry mucociliary
  • An engineer must recognize the difference between a constraint (to work within) and a problem (to be eliminated via resolution).From the entry constraint

Meaning of eliminate

  1. verb To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
  2. verb To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing).
  3. verb To kill (a person or animal).

Full definition of eliminate

Questions about the past tense of eliminate

What is the past tense of eliminate?
The past tense of eliminate is eliminated.
What is the past participle of eliminate?
The past participle of eliminate is eliminated.
Is eliminate a regular or irregular verb?
Eliminate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: eliminate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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