get rid of

get rid of
verb
1. dispose of (Freq. 7)
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Get rid of these old shoes!

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The company got rid of all the dead wood

• Syn: ↑remove
• Derivationally related forms: ↑removal (for: ↑remove)
• 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

2. terminate, end, or take out (Freq. 3)
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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, ↑do away with
• 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

3. do away with
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Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia

• Syn: ↑abolish
• Ant: ↑establish (for: ↑abolish)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑abolishable (for: ↑abolish), ↑abolishment (for: ↑abolish), ↑abolition (for: ↑abolish)
• Hyponyms: ↑cashier, ↑abrogate
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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take action so as to be free of (a troublesome or unwanted person or thing)

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get rid of — see ↑rid
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Main Entry: ↑get
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get rid of
: to do something so that you no longer have or are affected or bothered by (something or someone that is unwanted)

It's time to get rid of [=throw away] our old computer and buy a new one.

I got rid of some old furniture by selling/giving it to my nephew.

I've tried everything to get rid of this cold, but it just won't go away.

He kept talking and talking. She finally got rid of him [=she finally got him to leave] by saying she had to make dinner.

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Main Entry: ↑rid

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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