eliminating

The word “eliminating” has 5 syllables: e-lim-i-nat-ing

It's pronounced as /ɪˈlɪmɪˌneɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for eliminating?

In the thesaurus, “eliminating” has 84 synonyms and 39 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for eliminating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for eliminating

  • annihilate
  • banishing
  • banning
  • barring
  • blackballing
  • blacklisting
  • blocking
  • blot out
  • bump off
  • cancel
  • cast out
  • ceasing
  • checking off
  • closing out
  • count out
  • cut out
  • debarring
  • defeat
  • deporting
  • deterring
  • discard
  • discharge
  • discontinuing
  • dismiss
  • dispense with
  • dispose of
  • disqualify
  • disregard
  • disregarding
  • do away with
  • drive out
  • drop
  • eject
  • eradicate
  • erase
  • evict
  • excepting
  • exclude
  • excluding
  • excommunicating
  • exiling
  • expel
  • expelling
  • exterminate
  • freezing out
  • get rid of
  • halting
  • hindering
  • ignore
  • impeding
  • invalidate
  • kill
  • knock out
  • leave out
  • liquidate
  • murder
  • obstructing
  • obviating
  • omit
  • ostracizing
  • oust
  • ousting
  • phase out
  • precluding
  • preventing
  • prohibiting
  • put out
  • reject
  • rub out
  • rule out
  • ruling out
  • set aside
  • shut the door on
  • shutting out
  • slay
  • stamp out
  • staving off
  • suspending
  • take out
  • terminate
  • throwing out
  • waive
  • waste
  • wipe out

Antonyms for eliminating

Meanings of eliminating

  • verb
    1. To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
    2. To kill (a person or animal).
    3. To excrete (waste products).
    4. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
    5. To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Example Sentences

  • The new system is eliminating the need for manual data entry.
  • He is focused on eliminating all distractions while working.
  • The company is eliminating unnecessary steps in the production process.
  • The strategy is aimed at eliminating waste and improving sustainability.
  • By eliminating unnecessary jargon, the speaker made the message clearer.

On this page you'll find 123 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to eliminating, such as: accept, accepting, add, admit, admitting, aid, allow.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abating

  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abridging
  • abrogating
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • analeptic
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • assuaging
  • avoiding
  • bankrupting
  • banning
  • bereaving
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • ceasing
  • cheating
  • clipping
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crumbling
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declinatory
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • decrescent
  • deducting
  • deflating
  • defrauding
  • denting
  • denuding
  • depleting
  • depreciating
  • depriving
  • descending
  • desisting
  • diminishing
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discontinuing
  • discounting
  • disfurnishing
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • divesting
  • docking
  • doing away with
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebbing
  • eliminating
  • encouraging
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • evaporating
  • expiring
  • fading away
  • falling
  • falling away
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • forbidding
  • freeing
  • giving out
  • health-giving
  • heart-warming
  • impoverishing
  • inspiriting
  • invalidating
  • invigorating
  • knocking down
  • knocking off
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • liquidating
  • losing momentum
  • lowering
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • narrowing
  • negating
  • nicking
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • palling
  • paring
  • passing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • prohibiting
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quashing
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • reassuring
  • recalling
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rejecting
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • remitting
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  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • restoring
  • retracting
  • retrenching
  • reversing
  • revitalizing
  • revivifying
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • sagging
  • setting aside
  • settling
  • shortchanging
  • shortening
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  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slashing
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  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • softening
  • solacing
  • soothing
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • stripping
  • subsiding
  • subtracting
  • succoring
  • suspending
  • sustaining
  • taking off
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • tumbling
  • upholding
  • vacating
  • vanishing
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • waning
  • warming
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • whittling
  • winding up
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

abolishing

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • assassinating
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • bane
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • carnage
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • crashing
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devastation
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • disintegrating
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disrupting
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • downfall
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • end
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunging
  • exterminating
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpating
  • extirpation
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • havoc
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loss
  • massacre
  • murder
  • negating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • striking down
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • suspending
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

abrogating

  • abating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • adverse
  • against
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • antagonistic
  • anti
  • avoiding
  • balky
  • banning
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • colorless
  • con
  • contrary
  • contravening
  • counteractive
  • countermanding
  • cynical
  • denying
  • detrimental
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • disavowing
  • dismissing
  • dissentient
  • dissenting
  • dissolving
  • doing away with
  • dropping
  • eliminating
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • forbidding
  • gainsaying
  • gloomy
  • impugning
  • invalidating
  • jaundiced
  • liquidating
  • naysaying
  • negating
  • neutralizing
  • nugatory
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • opposing
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • pessimistic
  • privative
  • prohibiting
  • quashing
  • recalling
  • recusant
  • refusing
  • rejecting
  • removed
  • removing
  • repealing
  • repugnant
  • rescinding
  • resisting
  • resistive
  • retracting
  • reversing
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • setting aside
  • striking down
  • suspending
  • throwing out
  • unaffirmative
  • unenthusiastic
  • unfavorable
  • uninterested
  • unwilling
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • weak
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

banishing

  • axing
  • bouncing
  • canning
  • cashiering
  • casting out
  • chasing
  • defenestrating
  • deforcing
  • deporting
  • discharging
  • dismissing
  • displacing
  • dispossessing
  • ejecting
  • eliminating
  • evicting
  • excluding
  • excommunicating
  • exiling
  • expatriating
  • expelling
  • expulsing
  • extruding
  • firing
  • giving one the gate
  • kicking out
  • mustering out
  • ostracizing
  • ousting
  • outing
  • pink-slipping
  • reading out
  • rejecting
  • releasing
  • relegating
  • removing
  • repudiating
  • retiring
  • routing
  • running off
  • running out
  • sacking
  • sending packing
  • shutting out
  • spurning
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • transporting
  • turning out

banning

  • ban
  • banishing
  • barring
  • bidding
  • blackballing
  • blacklisting
  • blocking
  • bridling
  • ceasing
  • charging
  • checking
  • checking off
  • closing out
  • coercion
  • compulsion
  • constraint
  • crushing
  • curbing
  • debarring
  • decreeing
  • deporting
  • depriving
  • deterrence
  • deterring
  • dictation
  • direction
  • disallowance
  • disallowing
  • discontinuing
  • discouragement
  • discouraging
  • disregarding
  • dissuading
  • eliminating
  • embargo
  • embargoing
  • enjoining
  • excepting
  • excluding
  • excommunicating
  • exiling
  • expelling
  • forbidding
  • force
  • freezing out
  • halting
  • hindering
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • instruction
  • interdict
  • interdicting
  • interdiction
  • obstructing
  • obviating
  • off-limits
  • ostracizing
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • precluding
  • preventing
  • prohibiting
  • prohibition
  • proscribing
  • proscription
  • putting down
  • quashing
  • quelling
  • rejecting
  • repressing
  • repression
  • repudiating
  • restraining
  • restriction
  • ruling out
  • shutting out
  • silencing
  • squashing
  • squelching
  • staving off
  • stopping
  • subduing
  • suppressing
  • suppression
  • suspending
  • throwing out
  • vetoing

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