| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To remove, exclude, kill, evacuate or eradicate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To abduct or kidnap. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To preclude or avert. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To delete, erase, cancel, expunge or expurgate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To divert or deviate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To splay or swerve. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To exterminate, demolish or liquidate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To abjure, annul, abolish, abrogate or annihilate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To banish or expel.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Present participle conjugation of the verb eliminate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (eliminate) | 1. Terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "eliminate my debts".[Wordnet]. 2. Do away with.[Wordnet]. 3. Kill in large numbers.[Wordnet]. 4. Dismiss from consideration or a contest; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration".[Wordnet]. 5. Eliminate from the body.[Wordnet]. 6. Remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race".[Wordnet]. 7. Remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations.[Wordnet]. 8. Terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics".[Wordnet]. 9. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.[Websters]. 10. To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.[Websters]. 11. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.[Websters]. 12. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.[Websters]. 13. To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.[Websters]. 14. Base verb from the following inflections: eliminating, eliminated, eliminates, eliminator, eliminators, eliminatingly and eliminatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ELIMINATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ELIMINATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Expelling; discharging; throwing off.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of eliminate. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: eliminate
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women | The International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women was established in 1999 when the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution designating November 25 as the yearly-celebrated International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: eliminate | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Efforts to eliminate the penny in the United States | 24 | Efforts to eliminate the penny in the United States | 24 | |
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