Definition of Eliminate

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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

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

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou Holtz

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

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

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
Andy Rooney

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. Edwards Deming

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Gore Vidal

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat

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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