Eliminate



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 除去, 淘汰
• ［英］ v. 除去, 淘汰 ( remove, eradicate)
• ［记］ e+limin ( 门槛) +ate -> 扔出门槛 -> 除去
• ［例］ eliminate the mistakes from your writing

Webster Collegiate

verb (-nated; -nating)

• Etymology: Latin eliminatus, past participle of eliminare, from e- + limin-, limen threshold
• Date: 1568
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to put an end to or get rid of ; remove, eradicate <the need to eliminate poverty><eliminate errors>
    • b. to remove from consideration <cannot yet eliminate him as a suspect>
    • c. to remove from further competition by defeating <the team was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs>
  • 2. to expel (as waste) from the living body
  • 3. to cause (as an unknown) to disappear by combining two or more mathematical equations
• intransitive verb
  • to expel waste from the living body
• ? eliminative adjective
• ? eliminator noun

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