Eliminate /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Eliminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliminating

1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

   Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored.

2. To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. (Alg.)
3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.

   Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating.

4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]
5. To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system. (Physiol.)