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eliminate en · VERB

Pronunciation

/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ (US)
/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ (UK)
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/ɪˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/ (US)
/iˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ (US)
/əˈlɪm.ɪ.næɪt/ (Australia)
/iˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/ (US)
/əˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/ weak vowel merger

Etymology

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.

Meanings

(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- 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 original on 06 Aug 2020:
- 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:
- […] 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:
- “The Budget proposes eliminating Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants (Title II State grants), a program that provides formula funds to States to improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other schools leaders. SEI grants are poorly targeted and funds are spread too thinly to have a meaningful impact on student outcomes. 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN:
(transitive) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
(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:
(transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
- Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Source
eliminating	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
eliminates	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
eliminated	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
eliminated	Tense=Past	lexicographic

Translations (72)

ru ликвиди́ровать (kill) · ja 除去する (completely destroy) · fi virtsata (excrete) · cmn 根除 (completely destroy) · uk ліквідувати (kill) · ota افنا ایتمك (completely destroy) · bg убивам (kill) · fi eliminoida (eliminate the effects of intercompany transactions in a consolidation statement) · cmn 消除 (completely destroy) · sv förgöra (completely destroy) · fi eliminoida (kill) · de eliminieren (kill) · ja 殺す (kill) · ia eliminar (completely destroy) · sq asgjësoj (kill) · nl elimineren (completely destroy) · tr temizlemek (kill) · mi whakamōtī (completely destroy) · de umbringen (kill) · ca eliminar (completely destroy) · fi eliminoida (completely destroy) · it eliminare (kill) · pl zlikwidować (completely destroy) · cs eliminovat (completely destroy) · fi hävittää (completely destroy) · ota قازیمق (kill) · uk знищити (kill) · sq zhduk (completely destroy) · ga deireadh (completely destroy) · hu felszámol (completely destroy) · ru ликвиди́ровать (completely destroy) · uk ліквідувати (completely destroy) · es eliminar (completely destroy) · el καθαρίζω (kill) · el σκοτώνω (kill) · hu kiküszöböl (completely destroy) · cmn 除掉 (kill) · sv eliminera (completely destroy) · bg премахвам (completely destroy) · cmn 消滅 /消灭 (completely destroy) · ru уничтожа́ть (kill) · got 𐌰𐍆𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (kill) · pl wyeliminować (completely destroy) · cmn 抹殺 /抹杀 (kill) · fi hankkiutua eroon (completely destroy) · de zerstören (completely destroy) · de beseitigen (kill) · fi nirhata (kill) · cmn 殺 /杀 (kill) · sq eliminoj (completely destroy) · fi tuhota (completely destroy) · cmn 排出 (excrete) · ja 抹殺する (kill) · it eliminare (completely destroy) · hu megsemmisít (completely destroy) · hu kiirt (completely destroy) · de eliminieren (completely destroy) · ota قازیمق (completely destroy) · pl likwidować (completely destroy) · pl eliminować (completely destroy) · az aradan qaldırmaq (completely destroy) · sq asgjësoj (completely destroy) · ja 殺害する (kill) · bg елиминирам (completely destroy) · cs odstranit (completely destroy) · fi ulostaa (excrete) · fi listiä (kill) · fr tuer (kill) · fr éliminer (completely destroy) · pt eliminar (completely destroy) · ko 제거하다 (kill) · ru уничто́жить (kill)

eliminate en · VERB

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