eliminate

verb

Etymology: 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) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”); see also English limit and limen.

1. To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.

   “The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.”

   “The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]”

2. To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
3. To kill (a person or animal).

   “a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies”

4. To excrete (waste products).

   “In one study, 65.8% of the cat owners relinquishing a cat thought that their cat eliminated outside the litter box or destroyed furniture to spite them.”

5. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).

   “Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.”

   “John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.”

6. To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.