Definition of eliminate

• v. t. - To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
• v. t. - To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
• v. t. - To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
• v. t. - To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
• v. t. - To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.