eliminate

1. (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.Examples: "The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons."; "The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]"; "[…] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems."Synonyms: abrogate, abolish, erase, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothingtransitive

2. (transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)Synonyms: neutralizetransitive

3. (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).Examples: "a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies"slangtransitive

4. (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).Examples: "In one study, 65.8% of the cat owners relinquishing a cat thought that their cat eliminated outside the litter box or destroyed furniture to spite them."Synonyms: break the seal, hit the head, micturate, pass water, pee, piddle, piss, slashambitransitive

5. (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).Examples: "Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses."; "John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight."transitive

6. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.