Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb eliminate
7 senses of eliminate
Sense 1
extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with -- (terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts")
=> destroy, destruct -- (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house")
Sense 2
obviate, rid of, eliminate -- (do away with)
Sense 3
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off -- (kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population")
=> kill -- (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays")
Sense 4
rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject -- (dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration")
Sense 5
excrete, egest, eliminate, pass -- (eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone")
=> exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release -- (eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas")
Sense 6
eliminate -- (remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race")
=> beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish -- (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game")
Sense 7
eliminate -- (remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations)
=> remove, take, take away, withdraw -- (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment")
