verb
- Dispose of.
- usage: "Get rid of these old shoes"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
- synonyms: remove
- Terminate, end, or take out.
- usage: "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
- synonyms: extinguish, eliminate, do away with
- Do away with.
- usage: "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"
- synonyms: abolish
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