eliminating
adjective
[ ɪˈlɪmɪneɪtɪŋ ]
• leading to exclusion from consideration or further participation.
• "teams who had fought their way through the eliminating rounds"
eliminate
verb
• completely remove or get rid of (something).
• "a policy that would eliminate inflation"
Similar:
remove,
get rid of,
abolish,
put an end to,
do away with,
banish,
end,
stop,
terminate,
eradicate,
destroy,
annihilate,
stamp out,
obliterate,
wipe out,
extinguish,
quash,
finish off,
give something the chop,
knock something on the head,
• expel (waste matter) from the body.
• "this diet claims to eliminate toxins from the body"
• remove (a variable) from an equation, typically by substituting another which is shown by another equation to be equivalent.
• generate (a simple substance) as a product in the course of a reaction involving larger molecules.
• "the acid portion of one molecule reacts with the basic portion of the other, and water is eliminated"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘drive out’): from Latin eliminat- ‘turned out of doors’, from the verb eliminare, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out’ + limen, limin- ‘threshold’.
