eliminate

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  1. transitive verb To get rid of; remove: an effort to eliminate homelessness; eliminated his enemies.
  2. transitive verb To leave out or omit from consideration; reject.
  3. transitive verb To remove from consideration by defeating, as in a contest.
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  • Ensure the Job Gets Done Right One thing that no amount of delegation will eliminate is the need to check that the job is done properly.
  • We have to eliminate, eliminate, eliminate, until we have only one person left. —  Wraiths And Changelings-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 53
  • You have to eliminate, but what you eliminate is part of the truth. —  The Chinese Shawl - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 05
  • I am not going to, er--eliminate you yet for your failure to do your part Bluster dropped from Gordon; he paled. —  052 - The Land of Fear
  • This is at least one conspiracy theory we can eliminate, any investigative journalist contacting a handful of these inventors, will quickly realize the reality that big players will stop at nothing to prevent any new clean energy from reaching the market; energies that could produce such a high output compared with the input, it would solve all our problems. —  Dandelion Salad
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eliminate:   eliminating ·  eliminated ·  eliminates
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  1. Latin ēlīmināre, ēlīmināt-, to banish : ē-, ex-, ex- + līmen, līmin-, threshold.

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  1. from Latin eliminatus, past participle of eliminare (later Italian eliminare = Spanish Portuguese eliminar = French éliminer), turn out of doors, banish, from e, out, + limen (limin-), a threshold, akin to limes (limit-), a boundary: see limit.
 

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/əˈlɪmɪneɪt/
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