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eliminate
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As a verb, eliminate means completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
Meanings of eliminate
12 meaningsverb
To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
slangTo kill (a person or animal).
“a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies”
physiologyTo excrete (waste products).
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.”
accountingTo record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Terminate, end, or take out
“Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics”
“Socialism extinguished these archaic customs”
“eliminate my debts”
Similar: extinguish, get rid of, do away withGet rid of something
Similar: obviate, rid ofKill in large numbers
“the plague wiped out an entire population”
Similar: annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry offRemove from a contest or race
“The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race”
Remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).