Eliminate vs Ignore - What's the difference?
eliminate | ignore |
(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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To deliberately pay no attention to.
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As verbs the difference between eliminate and ignore
is that eliminate isto completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists
while ignore is . 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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Synonyms
* See also * abrogate * abolishSynonyms
* give the chop to * give the boot to * give the sack to * give the walking papers to * vote offExternal links
* *References
ignore
English
Verb
(ignor)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored , effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools