從範圍裡清掉：徹底消除
最接近字源的一支：把不要的東西整個弄到門外，屋裡一點都不剩。
elimination (total removal) · noun · C2
The complete taking away or destroying of something, so that none of it is left.
消除
核心畫面
One way to picture it: something is put outside the door and the door is shut — after elimination, it is simply not in here any more.
把某個東西請出門外，然後門關上。elimination 講的不是「變少」或「變弱」，而是「這裡面已經沒有它了」——名…更多收起
把某個東西請出門外，然後門關上。elimination 講的不是「變少」或「變弱」，而是「這裡面已經沒有它了」——名單上刪掉、比賽裡出局、身體裡排掉，都是同一個動作：從一個範圍裡被拿出去，之後它就不在這個範圍裡了。From the word’s history
From Latin ēlīmināre, literally 'to put out of doors' — ē- (out) + līmen (threshold, doorway). The modern core image of putting something outside and closing the door is the original picture, almost unchanged.
拉丁文 ēlīmināre 的字面意思就是「趕出門外」：ē-（出去）＋ līmen（門檻）。līmen 這個字在英文裡還活著，就是 subliminal（閾下的，「在門檻之下」）的那個 limen。所以現在的「消除、淘汰、排出」全都還踩在同一個門檻上——把東西弄到門外去，它就不在屋裡了。
Wiktionary, 'elimination' / 'eliminate' (< Latin ēlīminō, ē- + līmen 'threshold')
Three branches
把人請出局：淘汰與剷除
門外的不是東西，是人。同樣是「你不在這個範圍裡了」，只是範圍變成比賽、組織，或者生命本身。
elimination (competition defeat) · noun · C2
The defeat of a team or player in a competition, after which they cannot take part any more.
淘汰
身體把廢物送出去：生理排出
還是「請出門外」，只是這扇門長在身體上，而且這個動作每天都在自動進行，沒有敵意也沒有輸贏。
elimination (bodily waste) · noun · C2
The body's process of sending out waste and other substances it no longer needs.
排出
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
eliminationnoun/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
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The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]
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The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
- Everton require at least 3 goals in the second leg to avoid elimination from the FA Cup.
- Vietnamese tilapia Plastique Tiara was at the forefront of one of Drag Race's most controversial eliminations earlier this year. Although the Texan performer and biological woman was leaving us gooped week-after-week with her runways, she was – spoiler alert! – eliminated in eighth place after lip-syncing against Miss Vanjie, despite having a better track record.
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broadcastingmediatelevisionThe act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
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biologynatural-sciencesThe act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
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mathematicssciencesThe act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
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human-scienceslogicmathematicsThe act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
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accountingbusinessfinanceThe act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。