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eliminate

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"Get rid of"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aeeiilmntStarts with EEnds with E2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. eliminate from the body

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin ēlīminātus, perfect passive participle of ēlīminō (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē- + līmen (“a threshold”, līmin- in compounds) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”); see also English limit and limen.

Used in a sentence

  • The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
  • The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]
  • […] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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