eliminate
To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
Verb 4 meanings
To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
To excrete (waste products).
To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
“Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.”
Etymology
Borrowed 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.
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ELIMINATE at a glance
ELIMINATE has 9 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (E 1 + L 1 + I 1 + M 3 + I 1 + N 1 + A 1 + T 1 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,498 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with eliminate
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