Eliminate vs Outwit - What's the difference?
eliminate | outwit |
(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.
To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.
As verbs the difference between eliminate and outwit
is that eliminate isto completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists
while outwit is to get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits. 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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