Difference between Eliminate and Obviate

ELIMINATE vs OBVIATE: VERB

To bypass a requirement or make it unnecessary; to avoid a future problem or difficult situation.
Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
Do away with

To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce.
To cause to disappear from an equation.
To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
To excrete (bodily wastes).
To remove (an unknown quantity) by combining equations.
To remove from consideration by defeating, as in a contest.
To leave out or omit from consideration; reject.
To get rid of; remove.
To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete

To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary.
To meet in the way.
To keep from happening or render unnecessary. : prevent.

In mathematics, to remove (a quantity) from a system of equations by the reduction of the number of equations.
To thrust out; remove, throw aside, or disregard as injurious, superfluous, irrelevant, or for any reason undesirable or unnecessary; expel; get rid of.
To go beyond the limit or limits of.
Get rid of something

Prevent from happening
Prevent the occurrence of
Get rid of something
To meet half-way, as difficulties or objections; hence, to meet and dispose of; clear out of the way; remove.
To meet.

Rid of, Rule out, Evacuate, Wipe out, Pass, Void, Empty, Excrete, Get rid of, Extinguish, Annihilate, Reject, Decimate, Obviate, Eradicate

Circumvent, Sidestep, Prevent, Alleviate, Preclude, Head off, Ward off, Rid of, Fend off, Debar, Deflect, Stave off, Avert, Avoid, Eliminate

Rid of, Rule out, Evacuate, Wipe out, Pass, Void, Empty, Excrete, Get rid of, Extinguish, Annihilate, Reject, Decimate, Obviate, Eradicate

Remedy, Avoiding, Counteract, Circumvent, Sidestep, Prevent, Preclude, Rid of, Fend off, Debar, Deflect, Stave off, Avert, Avoid, Eliminate

CT and MRI scans to eliminate other diagnoses.
We eliminate intercompany transactions and balances in consolidation.
Fusion minimally impacts function and can eliminate pain.
PSQIA and to eliminate the potential for confusion.
To eliminate practices having adverse effects on competition.
Oh, if we could only eliminate this entirely!
The third approach is to eliminate error consequences.
Bankruptcy is able to eliminate most consumer debts.
They would pay attendees to eliminate our gun rights, eliminate freedom of speech, open our borders and implement socialism throughout our country.
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This, of course, would obviate the rule in MBM Fin.
Do these considerations obviate any UN role in such negotiations?
Care must be taken in reassembly to obviate oil leaks.
SYN: Remove, displace, obviate, oust, recal, neutralize, overrule, suspend, supplant.
Knowledge of the future does not obviate free will.
English does not obviate the need for other languages.
This question helps obviate thematic vagabonding and tunnel vision.
Effective use of rhetorical questions may obviate this problem.
Catalina will obviate the need for an antivirus utility.
Family Services that Obviate Need for Child Placement.