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1. Terminate, end, or take out
   "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "eliminate my debts";
   - extinguish, get rid of, do away with
    
2. Get rid of something
   - obviate, rid of
    
3. Kill in large numbers
   "the plague eliminated an entire population";
   - annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
    
4. Dismiss from consideration or a contest
   "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration";
   - rule out, winnow out, reject
    
5. Expel from the body
   "eliminate a kidney stone";
   - excrete, egest, pass
    
6. Remove from a contest or race
   "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
    
7. (mathematics) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations

Derived forms: eliminating, eliminated, eliminates

Type of: beat, beat out, crush, destroy, destruct, discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, kill, release, remove, shell, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], take, take away, trounce, uncreate [literary], vanquish, withdraw