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Another word for eliminate

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Verb

  1. To get rid of, especially by banishment or execution

    Idioms:
    See also:

    keep

    help

  2. To keep from being admitted, included, or considered

    See also:

    include

  3. To take or leave out

    See also:

    include

  4. To discharge (wastes or foreign substances) from the body

    See also:

    keep

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Another word for eliminate

Verb

  1. To remove

    Antonyms:

  2. To remove waste matter

    See also:

    exclude

    excrete

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • His purpose is to eliminate the common idea of divine interference.

  • First: It is possible to eliminate diseases.

  • I can list a few that might eliminate it and a few more that might delay it.

  • Vincent attributes to Rhazes the statement that copper is potentially silver, and any one who can eliminate the red colour will bring it to the state of silver, for it is copper in outward appearance, but in its inmost nature silver.

  • He said he told a young lad about them in hopes the boy would 'find' them and eliminate Billy from being accused.

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