eliminate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
edit- (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/
Audio (Queensland): (file)
Verb
editeliminate (third-person singular simple present eliminates, present participle eliminating, simple past and past participle eliminated)
- (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- Synonyms: abrogate, abolish; see also Thesaurus:destroy
- 1949, Proceedings of the ... Consolidated Convention of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America, page 159:
- The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
- 1977 June 13, Computerworld, volume 11, number 24, page 91:
- The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]
- 2002, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Wolfgang Fritz, Ruby Roy Dholakia, Global E-commerce and Online Marketing: Watching the Evolution:
- […] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.
- 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN[2]:
- “The Budget proposes eliminating Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants (Title II State grants), a program that provides formula funds to States to improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other schools leaders. SEI grants are poorly targeted and funds are spread too thinly to have a meaningful impact on student outcomes.
- 2020 August 4, Jason Schreier, “Blizzard Employees Share Salaries With Each Other to Protest Wage Disparities”, in Time[3]:
- Last year, the company eliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go.
- (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
- (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
- a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
- (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, Thesaurus:defecate
- (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
- John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
- (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.[1]
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editcompletely destroy
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kill
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excrete
exclude (from investigation or from further competition) — see exclude
eliminate the effects of intercompany transactions in a consolidation statement
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Further reading
edit- “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
edit- ^ “FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2011 April 14 (last accessed), archived from the original on 8 March 2011
Anagrams
editEsperanto
editPronunciation
editVerb
editeliminate
- present adverbial passive participle of elimini
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editeliminate
- inflection of eliminare:
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
editeliminate f pl
Anagrams
editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eː.liː.mɪˈnaː.tɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.li.miˈnaː.t̪e]
- Hyphenation: ē‧lī‧mi‧nā‧te
Verb
editēlīmināte
Spanish
editPronunciation
editVerb
editeliminate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of eliminar combined with te
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