eliminate

Meanings

• terminate, end, or take out
  • "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
  • "eliminate my debts"
• do away with
• kill in large numbers
• dismiss from consideration or a contest
  • "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
• eliminate from the body
• remove from a contest or race
  • "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
• remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations

Synonyms

annihilate, carry off, decimate, do away with, egest, eradicate, excrete, extinguish, get rid of, obviate, pass, reject, rid of, rule out, winnow out, wipe out