v. eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"

v. eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

v. do away with

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

v. give off (water) through the skin

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

v. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"

v. satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"

v. stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"

v. terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

v. move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";

v. pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"

v. destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"

v. make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

v. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"

v. defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"

v. do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

v. remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"

v. bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

v. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

v. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

v. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

v. remove from a list; "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"

v. wipe out magnetically recorded information

v. clear or empty

v. destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"

v. destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"

v. destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

v. rub with a circular motion; "wipe the blackboard"; "He passed his hands over the soft cloth"

v. remove the dust from; "dust the cabinets"

v. rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape; "The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image"

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

v. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"

v. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

v. relieve from; "Rid the house of pests"

v. require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"