eliminator Definition

eliminate
verb eliminated, eliminating

1. To get rid of or exclude.

Thesaurus: get rid of, remove, take out, dispense with, eject, expunge, delete, erase, eradicate, omit, leave out.
2. To expel (waste matter) from the body.
3. To exclude someone or something from a later part of a competition by defeat in an earlier part.
4. slang
To kill or murder someone.
Thesaurus: annihilate, kill, liquidate.

Derivative: eliminable
adj

Derivative: elimination
noun

Derivative: eliminator
noun

Someone or something that eliminates, eg the first round of a competition.

Etymology: 16c: from Latin eliminare to put out of the house, from e from + limen a threshold.