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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
- transitive verb. To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
- transitive verb. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
- transitive verb. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
- transitive 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.
- verb. eliminate from the body
"Pass a kidney stone"
- verb. kill in large numbers
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
- verb. terminate, end, or take out
"Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
"Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"
- verb. remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- verb. 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"
- verb. remove from a contest or race
"The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
- verb. do away with
Synonyms
egest, excrete, pass, annihilate, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, reject, obviate
Common word forms
eliminated, eliminates, eliminating
Words from these letters
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