get rid of

verbs

dispose of
"Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
get rid of, remove
terminate, end, or take out
"Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of
do away with
"Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"
abolish, get rid of