eliminate

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English

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, /ɪˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/, /iˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, /iˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /əˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˈlɪm.ɪ.næɪt/

Verb

eliminate (third-person singular simple present eliminates, present participle eliminating, simple past and past participle eliminated)

1. (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.

   Synonyms: abrogate, abolish; see also Thesaurus:destroy
2. (transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)

   Synonym: neutralize

3. (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).

4. (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, Thesaurus:defecate
5. (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).

6. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Hyponyms

• give the chop to
• give the boot to
• give the sack to
• give the walking papers to

Derived terms

Related terms

• eliminable
• eliminant
• elimination
• eliminative
• eliminator
• eliminatory

Translations

Further reading

• “eliminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “eliminate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

References

Anagrams

• itameline

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /elimiˈnate/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: e‧li‧mi‧na‧te

Verb

eliminate

1. present adverbial passive participle of elimini

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.li.miˈna.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: e‧li‧mi‧nà‧te

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

eliminate

1. inflection of eliminare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

eliminate f pl

1. feminine plural of eliminato

Anagrams

• eliantemi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eː.liː.miˈnaː.te/, [eːlʲiːmɪˈnäːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.li.miˈna.te/, [elimiˈnäːt̪e]
• Hyphenation: ē‧lī‧mi‧nā‧te

Verb

ēlīmināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēlīminō

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /elimiˈnate/ [e.li.miˈna.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: e‧li‧mi‧na‧te

Verb

eliminate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of eliminar combined with te