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



Definition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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