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v. To get rid of; remove: an effort to eliminate homelessness; eliminated his enemies.

v. To leave out or omit from consideration; reject.

v. To remove from consideration by defeating, as in a contest.

v. Mathematics To remove (an unknown quantity) by combining equations.

v. Physiology To excrete (bodily wastes).

v. To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.

v. To kill (a person or animal).

v. To excrete (waste products).

v. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).

v. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

v. To cause to disappear from an equation.

v. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.

v. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce.

v. To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete

To go beyond the limit or limits of.

To thrust out; remove, throw aside, or disregard as injurious, superfluous, irrelevant, or for any reason undesirable or unnecessary; expel; get rid of.

In mathematics, to remove (a quantity) from a system of equations by the reduction of the number of equations.

v. remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations

v. do away with

v. terminate, end, or take out

v. kill in large numbers

v. dismiss from consideration or a contest

v. eliminate from the body

v. remove from a contest or race

"We collectively are making the virtual elimination of these new infections in children an achievable goal, deliberately using the word "eliminate" -- not just "prevent.""

eliminated    eliminates    eliminating   

remove    take    withdraw    take away    kill    vanquish    shell    beat    beat out    trounce   

to eliminate the personal equation   

eliminative    eliminatory    elimination    eliminant    eliminable    eliminator   

close out    preclude    rule out   

deduce    separate    excrete    expel    omit    ignore    suppress    abstract    give the walking papers to    destroy   

discriminate    incriminate   

processes'    bounty'