eliminate

eliminate
verb
ADVERB
altogether, completely, entirely, totally

The risk cannot be eliminated altogether.

This procedure does not completely eliminate the possibility of an accident.

almost, nearly, practically, virtually
largely
effectively, essentially

Getting this job has effectively eliminated his financial worries.

successfully
possibly, potentially
eventually, ultimately

a policy that they claim will eventually eliminate corruption in the industry

gradually
quickly, rapidly
immediately
VERB + ELIMINATE
seek to, take steps to, try to
help (to)
be designed to

The single market is designed to eliminate barriers to free movement.

be impossible to
PREPOSITION
from

Try to eliminate fatty foods from your diet.

Eliminate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ambiguity, ↑backlog, ↑barrier, ↑bias, ↑bureaucracy, ↑chance, ↑clutter, ↑competition, ↑confusion, ↑corruption, ↑debt, ↑deficit, ↑delay, ↑discrimination, ↑disparity, ↑distraction, ↑duplication, ↑effect, ↑emission, ↑enemy, ↑error, ↑exemption, ↑fat, ↑gap, ↑guesswork, ↑hassle, ↑hazard, ↑incentive, ↑inefficiency, ↑influence, ↑interference, ↑job, ↑middleman, ↑mistake, ↑need, ↑odour, ↑penalty, ↑pollution, ↑possibility, ↑poverty, ↑practice, ↑prejudice, ↑problem, ↑reliance, ↑requirement, ↑restriction, ↑risk, ↑rival, ↑subsidy, ↑suffering, ↑tariff, ↑tax, ↑taxation, ↑threat, ↑uncertainty, ↑vestige, ↑waste

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  • 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;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • eliminate — e‧lim‧i‧nate [ɪˈlɪmneɪt] verb [transitive] to get rid of something unnecessary or unwanted: • The company plans to eliminate 2,100 jobs. • The administration s goal was to eliminate all spending restrictions on federal grants. * * * eliminate UK …   Financial and business terms

  • eliminate — I (eradicate) verb abolish, annihilate, blot out, cancel, clear out, consume, cut out, decimate, delete, demolish, deracinate, desolate, destroy, devour, dispatch, dispose of, dissolve, do away with, efface, end, erase, evacuate, expunge,… …   Law dictionary

  • eliminate — 1560s, from L. eliminatus, pp. of eliminare thrust out of doors, expel, from ex limine off the threshold, from ex off, out (see EX (Cf. ex )) + limine, ablative of limen threshold. Used literally at first; sense of exclude first attested 1714;… …   Etymology dictionary

  • eliminate — rule out, *exclude, debar, blackball, disbar, suspend,shut out Analogous words: *eject, oust, dismiss, expel, evict: eradicate, extirpate, *exterminate, uproot, wipe: expunge, *erase, delete, efface …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • eliminate — [v] remove, throw out annihilate, blot out*, bump off*, cancel, cast out, count out, cut out, defeat, discard, discharge, dismiss, dispense with, dispose of, disqualify, disregard, do away with, drive out, drop, eject, eradicate, erase, evict,… …   New thesaurus

  • eliminate — ► VERB 1) completely remove or get rid of. 2) reject or exclude from consideration or further participation. DERIVATIVES elimination noun eliminator noun. ORIGIN Latin eliminare turn out of doors …   English terms dictionary

  • eliminate — [ē lim′ə nāt΄, ilim′ə nāt΄] vt. eliminated, eliminating [< L eliminatus, pp. of eliminare, to turn out of doors, banish < e , out + limen, threshold (akin to limes, boundary) < IE base * (e)lei , to bend > LIMB1] 1. to take out;… …   English World dictionary

  • eliminate — 01. The government has been cutting budgets in various departments in an effort to [eliminate] the deficit. 02. The Brazilian team will be [eliminated] from the World Cup competition if they lose tomorrow s game. 03. André Agassi faces… …   Grammatical examples in English

  • eliminate — e|lim|i|nate [ıˈlımıneıt] v [T] [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: eliminatus, past participle of eliminare to put out of doors ] 1.) to completely get rid of something that is unnecessary or unwanted eliminate a need/possibility/risk/problem etc …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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