eliminate
pronunciation
How to pronounce eliminate in British English:
UK [ɪˈlɪmɪneɪt]
How to pronounce eliminate in American English:
US [ɪˈlɪmɪneɪt]
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- Verb:
- terminate or take out
- do away with
- kill in large numbers
- dismiss from consideration
- eliminate from the body
- remove from a contest or race
- remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
Word Origin
- eliminate
- eliminate: [16] To eliminate somebody is literally to ‘kick them out of doors’. The word comes from the past participle of Latin ēlīnāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and līmen ‘threshhold’ (source also of English subliminal and probably sublime). At first it was used in English with its original Latin sense (‘the secounde sorte thearfore, that eliminate Poets out of their citie gates’, Giles Fletcher, Christ’s Victorie 1610), and it was not until the early 18th century that the more general modern notion of ‘exclusion’ began to develop.=> sublime, subliminal
- eliminate (v.)
- 1560s, from Latin eliminatus, past participle of eliminare "thrust out of doors, expel," from ex limine "off the threshold," from ex "off, out" (see ex-) + limine, ablative of limen "threshold" (see limit (n.)). Used literally at first; sense of "exclude" first attested 1714; sense of "expel waste from the body" is c. 1795. Related: Eliminated; eliminating; eliminative; eliminatory.
Example
- 1. Deposit insurance is the way to eliminate the possibility .
- 2. Identify what you waste time doing and eliminate it .
- 3. Why does the diet eliminate oil entirely ?
- 4. If you can 't eliminate it , treat it .
- 5. But vaccination does not eliminate the virus .