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Definition of Eliminate
Eliminate

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.

To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.

To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.

To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.

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Eliminate Quotations

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
Erykah Badu

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
W. Clement Stone

Eliminate Translations

eliminate in Dutch is afvoeren, elimineren, uitschakelen
eliminate in Italian is eliminare
eliminate in Portuguese is elimine
eliminate in Spanish is eliminar, secretar, obviar


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