ELIMINATE

v. 1 remove, exclude, rule out, reject, drop, leave out, omit Police have eliminated him from their enquiries 2 take out or away, omit, get rid of, dispose of, expel, knock out He was eliminated in the first heat of the 100-metre run 3 erase, eradicate, expunge, obliterate, strike (out), cross out or off, cut (out), excise, delete, throw out, edit (out), blue-pencil, cancel The censors have eliminated all references to sex 4 kill, murder, assassinate, slay, terminate, exterminate, dispose of, liquidate, finish off, annihilate, stamp out, destroy, Slang bump off, polish off, US rub out, take for a ride, bury, ice, waste They used a sub-machine gun to eliminate the competition