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1 definition 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.
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