Word Meanings - ELIMINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.

Additional info about word: ELIMINATE

To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, (more info) 1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ELIMINATE)

• Clean Clarify
• disencumber
• disentangle
• disembarrass
• vindicate
• liberate
• set free
• release
• exonerate
• exculpate
• justify
• retrieve
• acquit
• absolve
• whitewash
• extricate
• eliminate
• Define
• Mark out
• limit
• designate
• specify
• elucidate
• explain
• fix
• settle
• determine
• bound
• Develop
• Educe
• enucleate
• enunciate
• lay open
• disclose
• unravel
• unfold
• clear
• amplify
• expand
• enlarge
• Draw
• produce
• elicit
• Elicit
• evoke
• educe
• express
• extract
• worm
• evolve

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ELIMINATE)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to ELIMINATE)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• EVOLVENT
  The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.