{
    "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’."
}