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{
"term": "eliminate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "eliminate",
"heSheIt": "eliminates"
},
"pastSimple": "eliminated",
"pastParticiple": "eliminated",
"ingForm": "eliminating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to remove or get rid of something",
"sensetop": "eliminate somethingeliminate something from something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Credit cards eliminate the need to carry a lot of cash.",
"contextForm": "eliminate something"
},
{
"text": "This diet claims to eliminate toxins from the body.",
"contextForm": "eliminate something from something"
},
{
"text": "The risk cannot be eliminated altogether."
},
{
"text": "The single market is designed to eliminate barriers to the free movement of goods, services and people."
},
{
"text": "This procedure does not completely eliminate the possibility of an accident."
},
{
"text": "Try to eliminate fatty foods from your diet."
},
{
"text": "a policy that they claim will eventually eliminate corruption in the industry"
},
{
"text": "Transmissions of the disease through this route have virtually been eliminated."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["altogether", "completely", "entirely"],
"verb + eliminate": ["seek to", "take steps to", "try to"],
"preposition": ["from"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to stop considering that somebody/something might be responsible for something or chosen for something",
"sensetop": "eliminate somebody/something from somethingeliminate somebody/something (as something)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The police have eliminated two suspects from their investigation.",
"contextForm": "eliminate somebody/something from something"
},
{
"text": "Malaria was eliminated as a cause of death.",
"contextForm": "eliminate somebody/something (as something)"
},
{
"text": "He was later released after being eliminated by the police from their inquiries."
},
{
"text": "We can only be certain once we have eliminated every other possible explanation."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to defeat a person or a team so that they no longer take part in a competition, etc.",
"sensetop": "be eliminatedbe eliminated from something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "All the English teams were eliminated in the early stages of the competition.",
"contextForm": "be eliminated"
},
{
"text": "She was eliminated from the tournament in the first round.",
"contextForm": "be eliminated from something"
}
],
"synonyms": "knock out"
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to kill somebody, especially an enemy or opponent",
"sensetop": "eliminate somebody",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Most of the regime's opponents were eliminated."
},
{
"text": "Rival gangsters had attempted to eliminate him."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlɪmɪneɪt/",
"audio": "el/eliminate/eliminate__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlɪmɪneɪts/",
"audio": "el/eliminate/eliminates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlɪmɪneɪtɪd/",
"audio": "el/eliminate/eliminated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlɪmɪneɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "el/eliminate/eliminating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlɪmɪneɪt/",
"audio": "el/eliminate/eliminate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlɪmɪneɪts/",
"audio": "el/eliminate/eliminates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlɪmɪneɪtɪd/",
"audio": "el/eliminate/eliminated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlɪmɪneɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "el/eliminate/eliminating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "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’."
}