Eliminate

1. v. t. To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
2. v. t. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
3. v. t. To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
4. v. t. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
5. v. t. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.