Толковый словарь английского языка - eliminate

verb (-nated; -nating) Etymology: Latin eliminatus, past participle of eliminare, from e+ limin-, limen threshold Date: 1568 transitive verb 1. to put an end to or get rid of ; remove, eradicate , to remove from consideration , to remove from further competition by defeating , to expel (as waste) from the living body, to cause (as an unknown) to disappear by combining two or more mathematical equations, intransitive verb to expel waste from the living body, eliminative adjective eliminator noun