éliminer
French, verb/e.li.mi.ne/
éliminer is spelled É-L-I-M-I-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éliminer is a French verb meaning “to eliminate; to phase out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre dehors ; écarter ; ôter”.
What does éliminer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to eliminate; to phase out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre dehors ; écarter ; ôter. 2. Expulser les déchets, en parlant du travail de l’organisme. 3. Retrancher, ôter de. 4. assassiner.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of éliminer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- éliminant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- éliminé participle past
- élimine first-person indicative present
- élimines indicative present second-person
- éliminons first-person indicative plural
- éliminez indicative plural present
- éliminent indicative plural present
- éliminais first-person imperfect indicative
- éliminait imperfect indicative singular
- éliminions first-person imperfect indicative
- éliminiez imperfect indicative plural
- éliminaient imperfect indicative plural
- éliminai first-person historic indicative
- éliminas historic indicative past
- élimina historic indicative past
- éliminâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce éliminer?
- /e.li.mi.ne/
- \e.li.mi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to éliminer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is éliminer in French?
éliminer appears 17 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).