English verb: eliminate | |||
1. | eliminate (change) terminate, end, or take out | ||
Samples | Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics. Socialism extinguished these archaic customs. Eliminate my debts. | ||
Synonyms | do away with, extinguish, get rid of | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | destroy, destruct | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | cancel out, cut, cut out, decouple, decouple, drown, except, exclude, extinguish, knock out, leave off, leave out, obliterate, omit, prune, rationalise, rationalize, snuff out, take out, wipe out | ||
2. | eliminate (stative) do away with | ||
Synonyms | obviate, rid of | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | close out, preclude, rule out | ||
Antonyms | necessitate, need, require, call for, demand, postulate, involve, ask, take | ||
3. | eliminate (change) kill in large numbers | ||
Samples | The plague wiped out an entire population. | ||
Examples | They want to eliminate the prisoners | ||
Synonyms | annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | kill | ||
Verb group | decimate | ||
4. | eliminate (cognition) dismiss from consideration or a contest | ||
Samples | John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi. This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration. | ||
Synonyms | reject, rule out, winnow out | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
5. | eliminate (body) eliminate from the body | ||
Samples | Pass a kidney stone. | ||
Synonyms | egest, excrete, pass | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, release | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | barf, be sick, ca-ca, cast, cat, chuck, crap, defecate, disgorge, empty, evacuate, exudate, exude, honk, make, make, make water, micturate, ooze, ooze out, pass water, pee, pee-pee, perspire, piddle, piss, puddle, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, relieve oneself, retch, shit, sick, spend a penny, spew, spue, stool, sudate, sweat, take a crap, take a leak, take a shit, throw up, transude, upchuck, urinate, urinate, void, vomit, vomit up, wee, wee-wee | ||
6. | eliminate (competition) remove from a contest or race | ||
Samples | The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | ||
7. | eliminate (change) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | remove, take, take away, withdraw | ||
Domain category | math, mathematics, maths | ||