eliminating

verb

(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.

(transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).

(transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)

(transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).

(ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).

(accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Roots

limenlimin- · Latin · threshold

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The word eliminating breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root limin-, from Latin limen (“threshold”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.