eliminate
Academic Word List, sublist 7.
About 14.21 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- verb To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
- verb To kill (a person or animal).
a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
- verb To excrete (waste products).
- verb To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
- verb To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Similar words
do away with annihilate get rid of wipe out eradicate extinguish evacuate carry off obviate reject
Often followed by
the all any this a or it them these some
Word family
eliminated eliminates eliminating elimination eliminative eliminator eliminators
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