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elimina

to eliminate /e.li.miˈna/

verb#1525 most common

Also: to remove, to knock out (competition), to rule out

Example sentences

Vreau să elimin zahărul din alimentația mea.
I want to eliminate sugar from my diet.
Echipa noastră a fost eliminată din turneu.
Our team was eliminated from the tournament.
Doctorul mi-a recomandat să elimin sarea din dietă.
The doctor recommended that I eliminate salt from my diet.
Guvernul a decis să elimine taxele suplimentare pentru micii producători.
The government decided to eliminate the extra taxes for small producers.
Comisia a eliminat candidații care nu au respectat criteriile de eligibilitate.
The committee eliminated the candidates who did not meet the eligibility criteria.
Prin reforma judiciară, autoritățile intenționează să elimine treptat practicile birocratice care întârzie actul de justiție.
Through the judicial reform, the authorities intend to gradually eliminate the bureaucratic practices that delay the administration of justice.

Conjugation

Present ActiveSimple Past ActiveSimple Future Active
1sgelimineliminaivoi elimina
2sgeliminieliminașivei elimina
3sgeliminăeliminăva elimina
1pleliminămeliminarămvom elimina
2pleliminațieliminarățiveți elimina
3pleliminăeliminarăvor elimina

Word family

eliminareelimination
eliminateliminated
eliminatoriueliminatory, qualifying (e.g. a round)
eliminatoreliminator (rare, mostly technical)

Etymology

Elimina came into Romanian in the nineteenth century as part of the deliberate re-Latinization of the language, borrowed from French éliminer and reinforced by the Latin source eliminare. The Latin verb combined the prefix ex- (out) with limen, liminis (threshold, doorway), so it originally meant to put someone out of the house. From that concrete image it broadened to the general sense of removing something from a set or a process.

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