eliminate
verb (used with object)
to remove or get rid of, especially as being in some way undesirable.
eliminative
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a word derived from
eliminate.
Example Sentences
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At the other extreme are so-called eliminative materialists, who question whether anything is really conscious, including humans.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 4, 2017
The U.S. was told what his wife read to him, what music he heard and how it was with his eliminative processes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old School" physicians and students with remarks like the following: "You speak as if you had the monopoly of eliminative treatment and of the production of crises.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
Moreover, although the selective process is primarily eliminative or destructive, like thinning turnips or pruning fruit-trees, we cannot separate its positive and negative aspects.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
They should never fast except in acute diseases and during eliminative healing crises, when Nature calls for the fast as a means of cure.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
