Disappear vs Eliminate - What's the difference?
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In transitive terms the difference between disappear and eliminate
is that disappear is to make vanish while eliminate is To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
(label) To vanish.
(label) To make vanish.
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(slang) To kill (a person or animal).
(physiology) To excrete (waste products).
To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
(accounting) To record amounts in a to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
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As verbs the difference between disappear and eliminate
is that disappear is to vanish while eliminate is To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
disappear
English
Verb
(en verb)Catch 22: A Dramatization, genre=Fiction, publisher=Delacorte Press, passage="Did they disappear' him?" / "I don’t know." / "What will you do if they decide to ' disappear you?"}}
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared .}}
Synonyms
* (to vanish) dematerialize, vanishAntonyms
* (to vanish) appearAnagrams
*eliminate
English
Verb
(eliminat)To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
- Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
- John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
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