elimination

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: e=lim=i=na=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

elimination, n. [Cf. F. élimination.].

•  The act of expelling or throwing off  [1913 Webster]
•  Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

elimination

abolishment, abolition, abscission, amputation, annihilation, annulment, assassination, bloody murder, bumping-off, castaway, castoff, choking, choking off, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, deep six, defecation, depletion, deportation, deracination, destruction, detachment, discard, discarding, discharge, discharging cargo, disjunction, disposal, disposition, drainage, draining, dumping, effusion, egestion, egress, ejaculation, ejection, emission, emptying, eradication, evacuation, excision, exclusion, excretion, exhausting, exhaustion, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, extravasation, extrusion, exudation, flow, flux, foul play, homicide, jettison, junking, liquidation, manslaughter, murder, mutilation, negation, nullification, off-loading, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, purge, purging, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, removal, rescission, riddance, rooting out, scrapping, secretion, severance, silencing, snuffing out, stifling, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, suspension, throwaway, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism, transudation, unloading, uprooting, venting, voidance, voiding, withdrawal

ROGET THESAURUS

elimination

Simpleness

N simpleness, purity, homogeneity, elimination, sifting, purification, simple, uniform, of a piece, homogeneous, single, pure, sheer, neat, unmixed, unmingled, unblended, uncombined, uncompounded, elementary, undecomposed, unadulterated, unsophisticated, unalloyed, untinged, unfortified, pur et simple, incomplex, free from, exempt from, exclusive, simple, only.

Exclusion

N exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation, exile, noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition, separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion, cofferdam, excluding, exclusive, excluded, unrecounted, not included in, inadmissible, exclusive of, barring, except, with the exception of, save, bating, exclusion, seclusion, exclusion, seclusion, privacy, retirement, reclusion, recess, snugness, delitescence, rustication, rus in urbe, solitude, solitariness, isolation, loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile, aloofness, cell, hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum, depopulation, desertion, desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, Old Sarum, exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut, inhospitality, inhospitableness, dissociability, domesticity, Darby and Joan, recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite, anchoret, anchorite, Simon Stylites, troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes, outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic, wastrel, foundling, wilding, secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye, out of the world, out of the way, the world forgetting by the world forgot, snug, domestic, stay-at-home, unsociable, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic, solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless, lorn, forlorn, desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast, banished, noli me tangere, among them but not of them, and homeless near a thousand homes I stood, far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, makes a solitude and calls it peace, magna civitas magna solitudo, never less alone than when alone, O sacred solitude! divine retreat!.

Fewness

N fewness, paucity, small number, small quantity, rarity, infrequency, handful, maniple, minority, exiguity, reduction, weeding, elimination, sarculation, decimation, eradication, few, scant, scanty, thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous, infrequent, rari nantes, hardly any, scarcely any, to be counted on one's fingers, reduced, unrepeated, rarely, here and there.

Extraction

N extraction, extracting, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers, extracted.