get rid of

1. 1

   (verb) terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"

2. 2

   (verb) dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

3. 3

   (verb) do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

syn. extinguish · eliminate · do away with · remove · abolish

WordNet 3.1