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. Remove or make unnecessary
   "The new system eliminates the need for manual processing";
   - obviate, rid of
    
3. Dismiss from consideration or a contest
   "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration";
   - rule out, winnow out, reject
    
4. Remove from a contest or race
   "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
    
5. Remove, destroy or wipe out completely
   "They eliminated corruption from the system";
   - uproot, eradicate, extirpate [formal], root out
    
6. Expel from the body
   "eliminate a kidney stone";
   - excrete, egest, pass
    
7. (mathematics) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
   "The student eliminated x from the system of equations"

Derived forms: eliminated, eliminates, eliminating

See also: disembarrass

Type of: beat, beat out, brush aside, brush off [informal], crush, destroy, destruct, discharge, discount, dismiss, disregard, eject, exhaust, expel, get rid of, ignore, push aside, release, remove, shell [US], spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], take, take away, trounce, uncreate [literary], vanquish, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Eliminate