do away with

do away with
verb
terminate, end, or take out (Freq. 1)
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Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics

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Socialism extinguished these archaic customs

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eliminate my debts

Syn: ↑extinguish, ↑eliminate, ↑get rid of
Derivationally related forms: ↑elimination (for: ↑eliminate), ↑eliminator (for: ↑eliminate)
Hypernyms: ↑destroy, ↑destruct
Hyponyms:
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

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Something ——s something

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the desire to do away with racism

kill

he didn't have the courage to do away with her

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do away with [phrasal verb]
1 do away with (someone) : to kill (someone)

She's accused of hiring a hit man to do away with [=murder, do in] her husband.

2 do away with (something) : to cause the end of (something) : to get rid of (something)

The struggling company had to do away with a number of jobs.

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