1. [verb] (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
2. [verb] (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
3. [verb] (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
4. [verb] To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
5. [verb] (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
6. [verb] Terminate, end, or take out; 'Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics'; 'Socialism extinguished these archaic customs'; 'eliminate my debts'.
7. [verb] Do away with.
8. [verb] Kill in large numbers; 'the plague wiped out an entire population'.
9. [verb] Dismiss from consideration or a contest; 'John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi'; 'This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration'.
10. [verb] Eliminate from the body; 'Pass a kidney stone'.
11. [verb] Remove from a contest or race; 'The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race'.
12. [verb] Remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations.
