Definition of "eliminate"

eliminate

/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present eliminates, present participle eliminating, simple past and past participle eliminated
1. (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
  Quotations
  Last year, the company eliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go.
  2020 August 4, Jason Schreier, “Blizzard Employees Share Salaries With Each Other to Protest Wage Disparities”, in Time‎
2. (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
3. (transitive, intransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
  Quotations
  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.
  2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, page 7
4. (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
5. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.