The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - 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.