Verb

• S: (v) get rid of, remove (dispose of) "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
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• S: (v) 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"
• S: (v) abolish, get rid of (do away with) "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"