eliminar
Portuguese, verb/e.li.miˈna(ʁ)/
eliminar is spelled E-L-I-M-I-N-A-R (8 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,385th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Eliminar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to eliminate (completely destroy something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “suprimir, fazer sair, excluir”.
What does eliminar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to eliminate (completely destroy something)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. suprimir, fazer sair, excluir 2. matar 3. expulsar do organismo
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of eliminar
- elimino first-person present singular
- eliminei first-person preterite singular
- eliminado participle past
- eliminares infinitive second-person singular
- eliminarmos first-person infinitive plural
- eliminardes infinitive plural second-person
- eliminarem infinitive plural third-person
- eliminando gerund
- eliminados masculine participle past
- eliminada feminine participle past
- eliminadas feminine participle past
- eliminas indicative present second-person
- elimina indicative present singular
- eliminamos first-person indicative plural
- eliminais indicative plural present
- eliminam indicative plural present
- eliminava first-person imperfect indicative
- eliminavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce eliminar?
- Brazil /e.li.miˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.li.miˈna(h)]
- /e.li.miˈna(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to eliminar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is eliminar in Portuguese?
eliminar appears 26 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).