Stimulate vs Eliminate - What's the difference?
stimulate | eliminate |
To encourage into action.
To arouse an organism to functional activity.
(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 stimulate and eliminate
is that stimulate is to encourage into action while eliminate isto completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists
. stimulate
English
Verb
(stimulat)Synonyms
* (encourage) encourage, induce, provoke * (arouse) animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk upAntonyms
* (arouse) de-energize, sedate, stifleAnagrams
* * ----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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