Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eliminate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eliminate \E*lim"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eliminated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Eliminating}.] [L. eliminatus, p. p. of
eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes
boundary. See {Limit}.]
1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release;
to set at liberty.
Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces
of thought yet unexplored. --Young.
2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to
eliminate an unknown quantity.
3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive
inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
Eliminate errors that have been gathering and
accumulating. --Lowth.
4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to
deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent,
and not well authorized]
5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to
excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs
carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
eliminate
v 1: terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on
Akkadian hieroglyphics" [syn: {get rid of}, {do away
with}]
2: do away with [syn: {obviate}, {rid of}] [ant: {necessitate}]
3: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire
population" [syn: {annihilate}, {extinguish}, {eradicate},
{wipe out}, {decimate}, {carry off}]
4: dismiss from consideration; "John was ruled out as a
possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This
possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
[syn: {rule out}, {reject}]
5: eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: {excrete},
{egest}, {pass}]
6: excrete or discharge from the body [syn: {evacuate}, {void},
{empty}]
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