eliminate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To get rid of; remove: an effort to eliminate homelessness; eliminated his enemies.
2. v. To leave out or omit from consideration; reject.
3. v. To remove from consideration by defeating, as in a contest.
4. v. Mathematics To remove (an unknown quantity) by combining equations.
5. v. Physiology To excrete (bodily wastes).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To go beyond the limit or limits of.
2. To thrust out; remove, throw aside, or disregard as injurious, superfluous, irrelevant, or for any reason undesirable or unnecessary; expel; get rid of.
3. In mathematics, to remove (a quantity) from a system of equations by the reduction of the number of equations. Thus, if we have two equations expressing respectively the rates at which an orange growing on a tree increases in bulk and in weight, we can combine them so as to eliminate the time, and so obtain an equation expressing the relation between the bulk and the weight.

Wiktionary

1. v. To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
2. v. To kill (a person or animal).
3. v. To excrete (waste products).
4. v. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
5. v. To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
2. v. To cause to disappear from an equation.
3. v. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
4. v. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce.
5. v. To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete

WordNet 3.0

1. v. remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
2. v. do away with
3. v. terminate, end, or take out
4. v. kill in large numbers
5. v. dismiss from consideration or a contest
6. v. eliminate from the body
7. v. remove from a contest or race