eliminate

1. Terminate, end, or take out (synset 200472642)
   "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
   is a type of: destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
   subtypes:

   • cancel out, wipe out - wipe out the effect of something
   • decouple - reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
   • decouple - eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)
   • obliterate - do away with completely, without leaving a trace
   • knock out - eliminate
   • drown - get rid of as if by submerging
   • cut out - delete or remove
   • cut, prune, rationalise, rationalize - weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
   • extinguish, snuff out - put an end to; kill
   • except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out - prevent from being included or considered or accepted
   same as: do away with, extinguish, get rid of
2. Do away with (synset 202635337)
   subtypes: close out, preclude, rule out - make impossible, especially beforehand
   same as: obviate, rid of
3. Kill in large numbers (synset 200471632)
   "the plague wiped out an entire population"
   is a type of: kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
   same as: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out
   verb group: decimate - kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
4. Dismiss from consideration or a contest (synset 200687320)
   "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
   same as: reject, rule out, winnow out
5. Eliminate from the body (synset 200072742)
   "Pass a kidney stone"
   is a type of: discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, release - eliminate (a substance)
   subtypes:

   • perspire, sudate, sweat - excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
   • exudate, exude, ooze, ooze out, transude - release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
   • make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee, wee-wee - eliminate urine
   • urinate - pass after the manner of urine
   • empty, evacuate, void - excrete or discharge from the body
   • ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit - have a bowel movement
   • barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up - eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
   same as: egest, excrete, pass
6. Remove from a contest or race (synset 201105250)
   "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
   is a type of: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
7. Remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations (synset 200576638)
   referred to in: math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
   is a type of: remove, take, take away, withdraw - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

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