Crossword clues for eliminated
eliminated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eliminate \E*lim"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eliminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliminating.] [L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See Limit.]
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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. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
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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. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]
(Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: eliminate)
Usage examples of "eliminated".
Sometimes she missed the push-button conveniences that back on old Earth had eliminated the drudgery of monotonous household tasks.
She'd eliminated the precise measurements that some of the other shellpersons used with their brawns in the first week—except when she was speaking to another shellperson, of course.
Another planet is ecologically on the point of ruin, presumably because the Hiver extermination policy eliminated something vital to its ecosystem.
When investigators increased the distance between the samples, it was discovered that, unlike other electromagnetic phenomena, black quartz eliminated the time lag.
If the geologic survey teams are being deliberately ambushed and eliminated, we want to know that, and we want to know whom we have to deal with.
There were, indeed, grand paragraphs in the oldest Records, boasting that the ailments that had plagued mankind before the Crossing had been totally eliminated on Pern, which statement, Capiam maintained, meant that there had been two Crossings, not one, as many people, including Tirone, believed.
Long before the Crossings, such plagues as varicella, diphtheria, influenza, rubella, epidemic roseola, morbilli, scarlatina, variola, typhoid, typhus, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, hepatitis, cytomegalovirus herpes, and gonococcal were eliminated by vaccination .
With such severe reprisals, Fax undoubtedly had eliminated the resistance as well as the best craftsmen.
But the wing movement was upward, seeking Thread at ever higher levels as they eliminated the immediate airborne danger.
Colony Governors deployed them to sort out severe problems, like bandits and potential revolts, problems that had to be eliminated fast.
Only people who advocated and practised violence were physically eliminated, most were simply and quietly deported to a Confederation penal planet from which there was never any return.
Tranquillity had two serjeants eliminated during our attempt to stop her boarding.
I have eliminated the habitat’s SD platforms so that in future it won’t even be as difficult for them as today’s strike.
Although sensevise technology had essentially eliminated a lot of prostitution outside of Downtown, that still left protection rackets, extortion, clean water theft, blackmail, kidnapping, data theft, game-rigging, civic-service fraud, power theft, embezzlement, and vehicle theft, among others.
Five people had been eliminated by the guardian blanket of GISD agents—pickpockets, sneak thieves, a scam jockey—as the sisters made their way across the concourse.