Tra từ eliminate - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

elim·in·ate AW [eliminate eliminates eliminated eliminating] BrE [ɪˈlɪmɪneɪt] NAmE [ɪˈlɪmɪneɪt] verb
1. to remove or get rid of sth/sb
•~ sth/sb Credit cards eliminate the need to carry a lot of cash.
•~ sth/sb from sth The police have eliminated two suspects from their investigation.
•This diet claims to eliminate toxins from the body.
2. ~ sb (from sth) usually passive to defeat a person or a team so that they no longer take part in a competition, etc.
Syn: knock out
•All the English teams were eliminated in the early stages of the competition.
•She was eliminated from the tournament in the first round.
3. ~ sb (formal)to kill sb, especially an enemy or opponent
•Most of the regime's left-wing opponents were eliminated.
Derived Word: ↑elimination
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘drive out’): from Latin eliminat- ‘turned out of doors’, from the verb eliminare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + limen, limin- ‘threshold’.

Example Bank:
•The risk cannot be eliminated altogether.
•The single market is designed to eliminate barriers to free movement.
•The single market is designed to eliminate barriers to the free movement of goods, services and people.
•This procedure does not completely eliminate the possibility of an accident.
•Try to eliminate fatty foods from your diet.
•a policy that they claim will eventually eliminate corruption in the industry
•He was later released after being eliminated from the enquiry.
•Malaria was eliminated as a cause of death.
•Most of the regime's left-wing opponents were eliminated.
•They attempted to eliminate him as a political rival.
•Transmissions of the disease through this route have virtually been eliminated.
•We can only be certain once we have eliminated every other possible explanation.