Synonyms for eliminating
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ih-lim-uh-neyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈlɪm əˌneɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for eliminating Other synonyms for the word eliminating
- annihilate
- blot out
- bump off
- cast out
- count out
- cut out
- discard
- discharge
- dismiss
- dispense with
- disregard
- do away with
- drive out
- drop
- eject
- evict
- expel
- exterminate
- invalidate
- kill
- leave out
- liquidate
- murder
- omit
- oust
- phase out
- put out
- reject
- rub out
- rule out
- set aside
- shut the door on
- slay
- stamp out
- take out
- terminate
- waive
- waste
- wipe out
Définition of eliminating
Origin :- 1560s, from Latin eliminatus, past participle of eliminare "thrust out of doors, expel," from ex limine "off the threshold," from ex "off, out" (see ex-) + limine, ablative of limen "threshold" (see limit (n.)).
- Used literally at first; sense of "exclude" first attested 1714; sense of "expel waste from the body" is c.1795. Related: Eliminated; eliminating; eliminative; eliminatory.
- verb remove, throw out
- In eliminating money-fears from my own life that was the fact which helped me most.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- Is not the quality of dogs improved by breeding from the good and eliminating the bad?
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- The hope of eliminating the disease, however, comes rather in the use of vaccination.
- Extract from : « Rural Hygiene » by Henry N. Ogden
- If, perchance, this did not happen, Canby had a system of his own for eliminating settlers.
- Extract from : « The Dude Wrangler » by Caroline Lockhart
- That is, we have to work for the same end of eliminating the least fit.
- Extract from : « Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) » by Sir Leslie Stephen
- The observations help us in eliminating this element of error.
- Extract from : « A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes » by Sanford Bell
- "Eliminating Mr. Ritchie, I believe," said Nick, turning on me with a grimace.
- Extract from : « The Crossing » by Winston Churchill
- By eliminating the servants, Tatsu, and himself, what remained?
- Extract from : « The Silver Butterfly » by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
- Eliminating all these, there remain 44 heterosexual captures of adults.
- Extract from : « Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor » by Henry S. Fitch
- Eliminating book and dramatic rights from the equation, and what remained?
- Extract from : « The Fiction Factory » by John Milton Edwards
Antonyms for eliminating
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