Betekenis van eliminate In het Nederlands

• 0 to remove or take away someone or something:

  • A move towards healthy eating could help eliminate heart disease.

  • We eliminated the possibility that it could have been an accident.

  • The police eliminated him from their enquiries.

  • He was eliminated in the third round of the competition.

  • A police officer was accused of helping a drug gang eliminate rivals.

• 1 to remove or take away something:

  • You can never totally eliminate the possibility of human error.

• 2 to completely remove something that is not wanted or needed:

  • The problem we confront today is there is no one thing that can eliminate our dependency on petroleum.

  • The UK hopes other countries will support its proposals to eliminate debt owed by the poorest African states to international institutions.