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get rid of

/ get rid of /
verb

Definitions & Examples

verb Sense 1
dispose of
"Get rid of these old shoes!"
"The company got rid of all the dead wood"
Kinds of:
discard fling toss toss out toss away
Derived:
removal remotion
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb Sense 2
terminate or take out
"Let''s eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
Type of:
destroy destruct
Kinds of:
cancel out wipe out decouple obliterate knock out
Derived:
elimination riddance liquidation eliminator
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb Sense 3
do away with
"Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"
Opposites:
establish set up found launch
Kinds of:
cashier abrogate
Derived:
abolition abolishment
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Semantic Complexity
26%
Sense Count
3
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
26
Times Searched
3
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discard fling toss toss out toss away destroy destruct cancel out wipe out decouple obliterate knock out