| 单词 | eliminate |
| 释义 | eliminate —eliminability /i lim'euh neuh bil"i tee/, n. —eliminative, adj. /i lim"euh nayt'/, v.t., eliminated, eliminating. 1. to remove or get rid of, esp. as being in some way undesirable: to eliminate risks; to eliminate hunger. 2. to omit, esp. as being unimportant or irrelevant; leave out: I have eliminated all statistical tables, which are of interest only to the specialist. 3. to remove from further consideration or competition, esp. by defeating in a contest. 4. to eradicate or kill: to eliminate the enemy. 5. Physiol. to void or expel from an organism. 6. Math. to remove (a quantity) from an equation by elimination. [1560-70; 1915-20 for def. 4; < L eliminatus turned out of doors (ptp. of eliminare), equiv. to e- E- + limin-, s. of limen threshold + -atus -ATE1] Syn. 1, 2. reject. Ant. 2. include. |
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