Main entry: do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of
Definition: terminate, end, or take out
Usage: Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics; Socialism extinguished these archaic customs; eliminate my debts
Main entry: get rid of, remove
Definition: dispose of
Usage: Get rid of these old shoes!; The company got rid of all the dead wood
Main entry: get rid of, abolish
Definition: do away with
Usage: Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia