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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To get rid of; remove.
- transitive verb To leave out or omit from consideration; reject.
- transitive verb To remove from consideration by defeating, as in a contest.
- transitive verb Mathematics To remove (an unknown quantity) by combining equations.
- transitive verb Physiology To excrete (bodily wastes).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go beyond the limit or limits of.
- To thrust out; remove, throw aside, or disregard as injurious, superfluous, irrelevant, or for any reason undesirable or unnecessary; expel; get rid of.
- In mathematics, to remove (a quantity) from a system of equations by the reduction of the number of equations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
- transitive verb (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation.
- transitive verb To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
- transitive verb Recent, and not well authorized To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce.
- transitive verb (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
- verb slang To kill (a person or animal).
- verb physiology To excrete (waste products).
- verb To
exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- verb do away with
- verb terminate, end, or take out
- verb kill in large numbers
- verb dismiss from consideration or a contest
- verb eliminate from the body
- verb remove from a contest or race
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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We collectively are making the virtual elimination of these new infections in children an achievable goal, deliberately using the word "eliminate" -- not just "prevent."
Anu Gupta: A World Where No Child Is Born With HIV Anu Gupta 2011
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We collectively are making the virtual elimination of these new infections in children an achievable goal, deliberately using the word "eliminate" -- not just "prevent."
Anu Gupta: A World Where No Child Is Born With HIV Anu Gupta 2011
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We collectively are making the virtual elimination of these new infections in children an achievable goal, deliberately using the word "eliminate" -- not just "prevent."
Anu Gupta: A World Where No Child Is Born With HIV Anu Gupta 2011
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We collectively are making the virtual elimination of these new infections in children an achievable goal, deliberately using the word "eliminate" -- not just "prevent."
Anu Gupta: A World Where No Child Is Born With HIV Anu Gupta 2011
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We collectively are making the virtual elimination of these new infections in children an achievable goal, deliberately using the word "eliminate" -- not just "prevent."
Anu Gupta: A World Where No Child Is Born With HIV Anu Gupta 2011
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We collectively are making the virtual elimination of these new infections in children an achievable goal, deliberately using the word "eliminate" -- not just "prevent."
Anu Gupta: A World Where No Child Is Born With HIV Anu Gupta 2011
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If the word eliminate only makes you want them more, then make a pact with yourself to systematically cut back until you have only the occasional soda or other sugary drink as part of a planned treat.
The Life You Want Bob Greene 2010
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If the word eliminate only makes you want them more, then make a pact with yourself to systematically cut back until you have only the occasional soda or other sugary drink as part of a planned treat.
The Life You Want Bob Greene 2010
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If the word eliminate only makes you want them more, then make a pact with yourself to systematically cut back until you have only the occasional soda or other sugary drink as part of a planned treat.
The Life You Want Bob Greene 2010
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As far as I'm concerned, the right thing to eliminate is Nancy Pelosi, at least from her seat in Congress.
Pelosi: Health care surtax could be lowered, not eliminated 2009
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- abstract
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- annihilate
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- ban
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- clip
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- defecate
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- dismiss
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- dispose of
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- dock
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- effuse
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- eighty-six
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- emit
- empty
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- enucleate
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- exhaust
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- expel
- expunge
- exterminate
- extinguish
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- extravasate
- exudate
- exude
- fling off
- freeze out
- get quit of
- get rid of
- get shut of
- give away
- give off
- give the boot to
- give the chop to
- give the sack to
- give the walking papers to
- ignore
- isolate
- jettison
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- knock off
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- lop
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- nip
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- pare
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- pass
- peel
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- root out
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- rule out
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- secrete
- separate
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- shave
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- strike off
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- strip
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- toss overboard
- transude
- truncate
- unclog
- unfoul
- uproot
- vent
- void
- vote off
- weed out
- weep
- wipe out
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