Dictionary Entry
eliminate
eliminate is a 9-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
- 2transitive verb
To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
- 3transitive verb
To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
- 4transitive verb
To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
- 5transitive verb
To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
- 6verb
eliminate from the body
"Pass a kidney stone"
- 7verb
kill in large numbers
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
- 8verb
terminate, end, or take out
"Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
"Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"
Synonyms
- 9verb
remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- 10verb
dismiss from consideration or a contest
"John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"
"This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
Synonyms
- 11verb
remove from a contest or race
"The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
- 12verb
do away with
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