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For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
Daniel Baldwin

Meaning of "eliminate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ELIMINATE

From Latin ēlīmināre to turn out of the house, from e- out + līmen threshold.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ELIMINATE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELIMINATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Eliminate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb eliminate in English.

WHAT DOES ELIMINATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of eliminate in the English dictionary

The first definition of eliminate in the dictionary is to remove or take out; get rid of. Other definition of eliminate is to reject as trivial or irrelevant; omit from consideration. Eliminate is also to remove from a contest, usually by defeat.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ELIMINATE

PRESENT

Present
I eliminate
you eliminate
he/she/it eliminates
we eliminate
you eliminate
they eliminate
Present continuous
I am eliminating
you are eliminating
he/she/it is eliminating
we are eliminating
you are eliminating
they are eliminating
Present perfect
I have eliminated
you have eliminated
he/she/it has eliminated
we have eliminated
you have eliminated
they have eliminated
Present perfect continuous
I have been eliminating
you have been eliminating
he/she/it has been eliminating
we have been eliminating
you have been eliminating
they have been eliminating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I eliminated
you eliminated
he/she/it eliminated
we eliminated
you eliminated
they eliminated
Past continuous
I was eliminating
you were eliminating
he/she/it was eliminating
we were eliminating
you were eliminating
they were eliminating
Past perfect
I had eliminated
you had eliminated
he/she/it had eliminated
we had eliminated
you had eliminated
they had eliminated
Past perfect continuous
I had been eliminating
you had been eliminating
he/she/it had been eliminating
we had been eliminating
you had been eliminating
they had been eliminating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will eliminate
you will eliminate
he/she/it will eliminate
we will eliminate
you will eliminate
they will eliminate
Future continuous
I will be eliminating
you will be eliminating
he/she/it will be eliminating
we will be eliminating
you will be eliminating
they will be eliminating
Future perfect
I will have eliminated
you will have eliminated
he/she/it will have eliminated
we will have eliminated
you will have eliminated
they will have eliminated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been eliminating
you will have been eliminating
he/she/it will have been eliminating
we will have been eliminating
you will have been eliminating
they will have been eliminating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would eliminate
you would eliminate
he/she/it would eliminate
we would eliminate
you would eliminate
they would eliminate
Conditional continuous
I would be eliminating
you would be eliminating
he/she/it would be eliminating
we would be eliminating
you would be eliminating
they would be eliminating
Conditional perfect
I would have eliminate
you would have eliminate
he/she/it would have eliminate
we would have eliminate
you would have eliminate
they would have eliminate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been eliminating
you would have been eliminating
he/she/it would have been eliminating
we would have been eliminating
you would have been eliminating
they would have been eliminating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you eliminate
we let´s eliminate
you eliminate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to eliminate
Past participle
eliminated
Present Participle
eliminating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ELIMINATE


abominate
əˈbɒmɪˌneɪt
contaminate
kənˈtæmɪˌneɪt
criminate
ˈkrɪmɪˌneɪt
culminate
ˈkʌlmɪˌneɪt
decontaminate
ˌdiːkənˈtæmɪˌneɪt
delaminate
diːˈlæmɪˌneɪt
discriminate
dɪˈskrɪmɪˌneɪt
disseminate
dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt
dominate
ˈdɒmɪˌneɪt
examinate
ɪɡˈzæmɪˌneɪt
exterminate
ɪkˈstɜːmɪˌneɪt
fulminate
ˈfʌlmɪˌneɪt
germinate
ˈdʒɜːmɪˌneɪt
illuminate
ɪˈluːmɪˌneɪt
inseminate
ɪnˈsɛmɪˌneɪt
laminate
ˈlæmɪˌneɪt
nominate
ˈnɒmɪˌneɪt
predominate
prɪˈdɒmɪˌneɪt
ruminate
ˈruːmɪˌneɪt
terminate
ˈtɜːmɪˌneɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ELIMINATE

elicit
elicitable
elicitation
elicitor
elide
elidible
eligibility
eligible
eligibly
Elijah
eliminability
eliminable
eliminant
elimination
eliminative
eliminative materialism
eliminativism
eliminator
eliminatory
elint

WORDS THAT END LIKE ELIMINATE

alginate
aluminate
assassinate
caseinate
combinate
coordinate
determinate
donate
fascinate
hallucinate
indeterminate
indiscriminate
indoctrinate
marinate
ordinate
originate
paginate
procrastinate
subordinate
succinate
urinate

Synonyms and antonyms of eliminate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ELIMINATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «eliminate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of eliminate

Translation of «eliminate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ELIMINATE

Find out the translation of eliminate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of eliminate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «eliminate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

排除
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

eliminar
570 millions of speakers

English

eliminate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

को खत्म
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يَسْتَبْعِدُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

удалять
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

eliminar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাছা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

éliminer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menghapuskan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ausschließen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

除去する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

제거하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngilangi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

loại trừ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அகற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दूर करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

elemek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eliminare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyeliminować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ліквідувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a elimina
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξαλείφω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skakel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

eliminera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

eliminere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of eliminate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ELIMINATE»

The term «eliminate» is very widely used and occupies the 9.239 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ELIMINATE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about eliminate

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10 QUOTES WITH «ELIMINATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word eliminate.
1
Howard Aiken
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
2
Sal Albanese
By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.
3
John R. Allen
Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day.
4
Yasser Arafat
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
5
Daniel Baldwin
For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
6
Fred Barnes
Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.
7
Andrew J. Bernstein
Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.
8
Kit Bond
The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.
9
Jim Bridenstine
Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.
10
John Bruton
It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELIMINATE»

Discover the use of eliminate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to eliminate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and ...
Value-stream maps are the blueprints for lean transformations and Learning to See is an easy-to-read, step-by-step instruction manual that teaches this valuable tool to anyone, regardless of his or her background.This groundbreaking ...
Mike Rother, John Shook, 2003
2
The Plan: Eliminate the Surprising "Healthy" Foods That Are ...
In this revolutionary, New York Times bestselling book, cutting-edge nutrition expert Lyn-Genet Recitas reveals the surprising truth behind what actually makes people pack on the pounds.
Lyn-Genet Recitas, 2013
3
Eliminate the Chaos at Work: 25 Techniques to Increase ...
If so, it's time for you to Eliminate the Chaos at Work. At long last, you can take control of your workday. Eliminate the Chaos at Work guides you through twenty-five techniques to increase your productivity.
Laura Leist, 2011
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Data Strategies to Uncover and Eliminate Hidden Inequities: ...
Johnson and Avelar-LaSalle help educators identify the questions that get below the surface and demonstrate how powerful these data can be in answering important equity questions. With examples of schools that exemplify these data models ...
Ruth S. Johnson, Robin Avelar La Salle, 2010
5
Eliminate Stress from Your Life Forever: A Simple Program ...
Based on 20 years' research, the book combines physical, spiritual and psychological elements-ranging from meditation and Chinese exercises to the latest medical research-into an easy 100-day program.
William Atkinson, 2004
6
5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste
In this work, the authors bring the concepts of the 5S System and offer a blueprint for building a Lean foundation for an office setting.
Thomas Fabrizio, Don Tapping, 2006
7
Meals that Heal Inflammation: Embrace Healthy Living and ...
Provides information, advice, and recipes for controlling inflammatory diseases, including arthritis, asthma, and allergies, with diet.
Julie Daniluk, 2012
8
Dignity at Work: Eliminate Bullying and Create and a ...
Bullying in the workplace is now a recognised problem, and a cause for major concern. Victims stand to lose their self-esteem, their health and even their careers.
Pauline Rennie Peyton, 2004
9
Eliminate the Impossible: An Examination of the World of ...
The book begins with a brief examination of the effect that the stories have had on modern crime literature.
Alistair Duncan, 2008
10
Combating Terrorism: Need to Eliminate Duplicate Federal ...
Local emergency responders such as firefighters and haz. materials, law enforce., and emerg. med. personnel will be the first to respond to terrorist incidents.
Norman J. Rabkin, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELIMINATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term eliminate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Finally, an honest meditation to eliminate the 'horse sh*t' from your life
Have you ever been meditating and thought, "This would be way more interesting with expletives"? Well, looks like the gods have smiled upon ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
2
Microsoft To Eliminate Up To 7800 Jobs
Microsoft To Eliminate Up To 7,800 Jobs. Thousands of job cuts are expected, in an effort to cauterize the company's struggling phone business ... «Fast Company, Jul 15»
3
Governor Ayade To Eliminate Skolombo Boys
ayade The Governor of the Cross River State, Ben Ayade, has assured that the streets of Calabar will be completely free from miscreants and ... «CHANNELS TELEVISION, Jul 15»
4
TMACC to eliminate daytime Saturday services for Link and SCCOOT
The Transportation Management Association of Chester County (TMACC) announced the elimination of daytime Saturday bus service on their ... «Daily Local News, Jul 15»
5
NDP assurances calm but can't eliminate royalty review fears
Grant Fagerheim, CEO of Whitecap Resources Inc., says royalty review uncertainty has created a risk discount for Alberta energy properties. «Calgary Herald, Jul 15»
6
Fulop moves to eliminate agency where workers were arrested
Less than one week after a top Jersey City Incinerator Authority official and three other agency workers were arrested as part of an alleged ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
7
Twitter Inc New AI Aims To Eliminate NSFW Content
With the need to stay socially connected in today's world, social platforms have been working towards improving the experience of their ... «Bidness ETC, Jul 15»
8
Army Plans To Eliminate Jobs
The army plans to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs and lower the overall troop force. All of this comes at a very sensitive time in the war on terror leading some ... «Siouxland News, Jul 15»
9
Should NJ eliminate cash tolls? - Poll
Pennsylvania is about to do away with cash toll collectors on their Turnpike, so why not New Jersey? Bill Spadea thinks toll automation could ... «New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio, Jul 15»
10
Researchers find new methods to eliminate malaria parasite
Scientists from the Toxicology Unit of the Medical Research Council (MRC) at the University of Leicester and the London School of Hygiene ... «Vaccine News Daily, Jul 15»

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