Dictionary

1. (

• get_rid_of ,
• remove

) dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood" ;

2. (

• extinguish ,
• eliminate ,
• get_rid_of ,
• do_away_with

) terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" ;

3. (

• abolish ,
• get_rid_of

) do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia" ;