ELIMINATE
eliminate
Verb
# To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
- To kill (a person or animal).
- To excrete (waste products).
- To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- 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.
- To record amounts in a to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
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