Thesaurus: eliminate

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1. v. t. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
2. v. t. To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
3. v. t. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
4. v. t. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
5. v. t. To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
6. v. terminate, end, or take out
7. v. get rid of something
8. v. kill in large numbers
9. v. dismiss from consideration or a contest
10. v. eliminate from the body
11. v. remove from a contest or race
12. v. remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations