eliminate

verb

1. 1

   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.

   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; […]

   […] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.

   Flutter, which is present in most iris-supported lenses, is minimized or virtually eliminated.

2. 2

   To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)

3. 3

   slangTo kill (a person or animal).

   a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Forms

past tense

eliminated

past participle

eliminated

present participle

eliminating

third person singular

eliminates