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eliminate
What does eliminate mean?
eliminate (verb): to completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use eliminate in a sentence?
- Eliminate extraneous punctuation. (Tatoeba sentence #10478491 by shekitten, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce eliminate?
/ɪˈlɪməˌneɪt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does eliminate come from?
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), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to eliminate
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “eliminate” mean?
to completely remove, get rid of, put an end to
Right! That's what “eliminate” means.
to determine the number of (objects in a group)
Not quite: that's what count means.
to disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect
Not quite: that's what separate means.
keep from happening or arising; make impossible
Not quite: that's what prevent means.
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