eliminate

Etymology

Definitions

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.
2. 2

   To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it

   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

   To kill (a person or animal).

   • a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
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   1. 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.
   2. 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.
   3. 6

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

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

The neighborhood

• neighboreliminable
• neighboreliminant
• neighborelimination
• neighboreliminative
• neighboreliminator
• neighboreliminatory
• neighborgive the chop to
• neighborgive the boot to
• neighborgive the sack to
• neighborgive the walking papers to