Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away withterminate, end, or take out“Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics”, “Socialism extinguished these archaic customs”, “eliminate my debts”
(v)eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry offkill in large numbers“the plague wiped out an entire population”
(v)rule out, eliminate, winnow out, rejectdismiss from consideration or a contest“John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi”, “This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration”