Textual thesaurus for "get rid of"

(verb) do away with, eliminate, extinguish

terminate, end, or take out

Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics; Socialism extinguished these archaic customs; eliminate my debts

(verb) remove

dispose of

Get rid of these old shoes!; The company got rid of all the dead wood

(verb) abolish

do away with

Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia