get rid of
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(verb) dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!" "The company got rid of all the dead wood" |
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Synonyms: remove |
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Related Words: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, comb out, discard, dispose, dump, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out, weed out |
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(verb) terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics" |
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Synonyms: do away with, eliminate |
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Related Words: cancel out, cut, cut out, destroy, drown, except, exclude, extinguish, knock out, leave off, leave out, omit, prune, rationalize, snuff out, take out, wipe out |
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(verb) do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia" |
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Synonyms: abolish |
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Related Words: abrogate, cashier |
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