eliminate
Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
The English word “eliminate” has 6 meanings listed here.
verb
- To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
- To kill (a person or animal).
- To excrete (waste products).
- To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēlīminātus, perfect passive participle of ēlīminō (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē- + līmen (“a threshold”, līmin- in compounds) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”); see also English limit and limen.
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