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eliminate(dictionary)
eliminate(dictionary)

falsify (iou) and eliminate (oh)


falsify (iou)



falsify verb. LME.
[(Old French falsifier from) medieval Latin falsificare, from Latin falsificus making false, from falsus FALSE adjective: see -FY.]
verb trans. Show to be false or erroneous. LME.
T. Jefferson No man can falsify any material fact here stated.
b. Fail to fulfil (a prediction, expectation, etc.). L16.
Wilkie Collins The prognostications of our..friends were pleasantly falsified.
verb trans. Alter (a document etc.) fraudulently. E16.
D. Brewster He..falsified the document by the substitution of a paragraph.
b. Debase with impurities; adulterate. M16-M17.
c. Make incorrect or unsound; make (a balance or standard) untrue. L16.
Bible (AV): Amos 8:5 Making the Ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit. I. D'Israeli He falsified accentuation, to adapt it to his metre.
d. Misrepresent, distort, (a fact etc.). M17.
R. Scruton I shall try to show how the Marxist's picture..falsifies the realities of Politics.
verb trans. Break, violate, (a promise etc.). M16-L17.
R. Greene Aeneas..falsified his faith to Dido.
verb trans. Make in fraudulent imitation; counterfeit, fake. M16-L17.
M. Lister They stampt and falsified the best ancient Medals so well.
verb trans. & intrans. Fencing. Pretend to aim (a blow); feint. L16-L17.
verb intrans. Make a false statement; deal in falsehoods (with). E17-L18.
Sir T. Browne His wisdome will hardly permit him to falsifie with the Almighty.
falsi,fia'bility noun (Philosophy) the quality of being falsifiable M20.
falsifiable adjective able to be falsified; Philosophy (of a proposition) that can be shown to be false: E17.
falsifier noun M17.

eliminate (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: eliminatus, past participle of eliminare 'to put out of doors']
to completely get rid of something that is unnecessary or unwanted
eliminate a need/possibility/risk/problem etc
::The credit card eliminates the need for cash or cheques.
::The teacher should try to eliminate the possibility that the child has a hearing defect.
eliminate sth/sb from sth
::Fatty foods should be eliminated from the diet.
[usually passive] to defeat a team or person in a competition, so that they no longer take part in it
::Our team was eliminated in the first round.
to kill someone in order to prevent them from causing trouble
::a ruthless dictator who eliminated all his rivals
eliminate sb from your enquiries
BrE if the police eliminate someone from their enquiries, they decide that that person did not commit a particular crime