eliminate

verb

1 the cause of the disease has been eliminated:

remove, get rid of, abolish, put an end to, do away with, banish;

end, stop, terminate, eradicate, destroy, annihilate, stamp out, obliterate, wipe out, extinguish, quash, finish off;

informal give something the chop, knock something on the head.

2 he was eliminated from the title race:

knock out, beat, get rid of;

rule out, disqualify.

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