eliminate
/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.15 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
Transitive verb
verb
To excrete (waste products).
verb
To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Example Sentences
- "The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons."
- "The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]"
- "[…] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems."
- "Flutter, which is present in most iris-supported lenses, is minimized or virtually eliminated."
- "“The Budget proposes eliminating Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants (Title II State grants), a program that provides formula funds to States to improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other schools leaders. SEI grants are poorly targeted and funds are spread too thinly to have a meaningful impact on student outcomes."
- "Last year, the company eliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēlīminātus, perfect passive participle of ēlīminō (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē- + līmen (“a threshold”, līmin- in compounds) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”); see also English limit and limen.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
- British English: /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/