eliminate
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(verb) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" |
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Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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Related Words: kill |
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(verb) terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics" |
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Synonyms: do away with, get rid of |
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Related Words: cancel out, cut, cut out, destroy, drown, except, exclude, extinguish, knock out, leave off, leave out, omit, prune, rationalize, snuff out, take out, wipe out |
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(verb) dismiss from consideration; John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi." |
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Synonyms: reject, rule out |
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(verb) eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" |
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Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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Related Words: barf, be sick, ca-ca, cast, cat, chuck, crap, defecate, discharge, disgorge, eject, expel, exudate, exude, honk, make, make water, micturate, ooze, ooze out, pass water, pee, pee-pee, perspire, piddle, piss, puddle, puke, regorge, regurgitate, release, relieve oneself, retch, shit, sick, spend a penny, spew, spue, sweat, take a crap, take a leak, take a shit, throw up, transude, upchuck, urinate, vomit, vomit up, wee, wee-wee |
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(verb) excrete or discharge from the body |
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Synonyms: empty, evacuate, void |
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Related Words: discharge, eject, expel, release |
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(verb) do away with |
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Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
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Related Words: close out, preclude, rule out |
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