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Synonyms for eliminate
Synonyms for eliminate: extinguish and pass. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for eliminate
Interchangeable with eliminate in this sense
Audited under eliminate's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one eliminate carries in that sense.
- extinguishverb, in the sense "terminate, end, or take out"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name eliminate as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- passpass is a verb in the sense "eliminate from the body"
one of these comes from eliminate's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
terminate, end, or take out
Eliminate my debts.
The true synonym
extinguish
Same sentence, swapped: Extinguish my debts.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- reject
- pass
- fracture
Where eliminate turns up in the game
eliminate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where eliminate is the trap
- floutverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is scoff, in the sense "treat with contemptuous disregard", and eliminate is on the board beside it.
Play eliminate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so eliminate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because change is the company eliminate keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. eliminate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.