elimate

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English

Etymology

From Latin ēlīmātus, past participle of ēlīmāre (“to file up”); ē- (“out”) + līmāre (“to file”), from līma (“file”).

Verb

elimate (third-person singular simple present elimates, present participle elimating, simple past and past participle elimated)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To render smooth; to polish.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “elimate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

ēlīmāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēlīmō
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