Usually means: Remove or eradicate something completely.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. eliminate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. eliminate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eliminate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eliminate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eliminate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eliminate, eliminate: Wordnik
  7. eliminate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eliminate: Wiktionary
  9. eliminate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eliminate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eliminate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. eliminate: Dictionary.com
  13. eliminate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. eliminate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Eliminate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. eliminate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. eliminate: Rhymezone
  18. eliminate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. eliminate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. eliminate: Free Dictionary
  21. eliminate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. eliminate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Eliminate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eliminate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eliminate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. eliminate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. eliminate: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eliminate: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eliminate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
verb:  (transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
verb:  (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
verb:  (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

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