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