eliminate

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin ēlīminātus, perfect passive participle of ēlīminō (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē- +‎ līmen (“a threshold”, līmin- in compounds) +‎ -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”); see also English limit and limen. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ (US) IPA(key): /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, /ɪˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/, /iˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, /iˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/ (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /əˈlɪm.ə.neɪt/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /əˈlɪm.ɪ.næɪt/ === Verb === eliminate (third-person singular simple present eliminates, present participle eliminating, simple past and past participle eliminated) (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to. Synonyms: abrogate, abolish, erase; see also Thesaurus:destroy (transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing) Synonym: neutralize (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal). (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products). Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, Thesaurus:defecate (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition). (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. ==== Hyponyms ==== give the chop to give the boot to give the sack to give the walking papers to ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “eliminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “eliminate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === References === === Anagrams === itameline == Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /elimiˈnate/ Rhymes: -ate Syllabification: e‧li‧mi‧na‧te === Verb === eliminate present adverbial passive participle of elimini == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /e.li.miˈna.te/ Rhymes: -ate Hyphenation: e‧li‧mi‧nà‧te === Etymology 1 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== eliminate inflection of eliminare: second-person plural present indicative second-person plural imperative === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Participle ==== eliminate f pl feminine plural of eliminato === Anagrams === eliantemi == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eː.liː.mɪˈnaː.tɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.li.miˈnaː.te] Hyphenation: ē‧lī‧mi‧nā‧te === Verb === ēlīmināte second-person plural present active imperative of ēlīminō == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /elimiˈnate/ [e.li.miˈna.t̪e] Rhymes: -ate Syllabification: e‧li‧mi‧na‧te === Verb === eliminate second-person singular voseo imperative of eliminar combined with te