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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eliminate \E*lim"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eliminated}; p. pr & vb n. {Eliminating}.] [L. eliminatus p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See {Limit}.] 1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. --Young. 2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. --Lowth. 4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized] 5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: eliminate v 1: terminate or take out "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics" [syn: {get rid of}, {do away with}] 2: do away with [syn: {obviate}, {rid of}] [ant: {necessitate}] 3: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: {annihilate}, {extinguish}, {eradicate}, {wipe out}, {decimate}, {carry off}] 4: dismiss from consideration; John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi." [syn: {rule out}, {reject}] 5: eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: {excrete}, {egest}, {pass}] 6: excrete or discharge from the body [syn: {evacuate}, {void}, {empty}]
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