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Grammar : Verb
Spell : ih-lim-uh-neyt
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈlɪm əˌneɪt



Definition of eliminated

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
Example sentences :
  • The sectional element has happily been eliminated from the tariff discussion.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • “I never affirmed I could not be eliminated,” rejoined the other.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • Franklin eliminated this feature and dropped the first part of the long name.
  • Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson
  • Some of the chapters he rewrote; others he eliminated entirely.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • He has eliminated the subtle sensuousness which has its own allure in the drawing.
  • Extract from : « Holbein » by Beatrice Fortescue
  • Of these (d) must inevitably be eliminated while (a) are selected.
  • Extract from : « Evolution in Modern Thought » by Ernst Haeckel
  • This liability to breakage is reduced, but not eliminated, by the asbestos annealing.
  • Extract from : « On Laboratory Arts » by Richard Threlfall
  • The heroic Paul was willing to be eliminated for the Kingdom of God.
  • Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
  • The first three of these can be minimized or eliminated by care and skill.
  • Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 » by Various
  • And you've said, yourself, that the Masters would have to be eliminated.
  • Extract from : « A Slave is a Slave » by Henry Beam Piper

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