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/ɪlˈɪmənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Eliminate v. t. (past & past part. eliminated; pres. part. eliminating)

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."

(Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.

To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. "Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating."

To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. (Recent, and not well authorized)

(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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Etymology of 'Eliminate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eliminate" Quotes from Famous Books

... 1943,[1005] the Court sustained the marketing program for the 1940 California raisin crop, adopted pursuant to the California Agricultural Prorate Act. Although it was conceded that the program and act operated to eliminate competition among producers concerning terms of sale and price as to product destined for the interstate market, they were held not to conflict with the commerce clause or with the Sherman Act or the Agricultural Marketing ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... I am of the belief that poetry, like music, should not demand too great exertion of the mind to appreciate its beauty. Wagner's "Seigfried" and "Parsifal" are altogether too long to be enjoyed thoroughly. The composer would have done well to eliminate a third of each, for as they are produced they strain the attention to the point of fatigue, and no work of art ...

— Modern English Books of Power • George Hamlin Fitch

... eliminate Podmore for the present. What now? Had he better go down to Ferguson's office and boldly demand from the haughty Miss Williams answers to a few pointed questions, or had he better locate Stiles ...

— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse

... 'I eliminate the safe from our investigations because it was purchased thirteen years ago, but the buying of the book, of wall covering, of this tough paper from France, all group themselves into a set of incidents occurring within the same month as ...

— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr

... highly developed organization. Were we only to recognise this, our real nature, we should leave less to chance and prejudices; were we to study man from a physiological, psychological, and honestly historical point of view, we should soon eliminate selfishness from among us, and be able to appreciate what is really the essence of evil. The more nearly we approach Darwin's primitive man, the ape, the nearer do we draw to the Mephistopheles who shows us his exact nature with impudent ...

— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies

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