get rid of

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. dispose of (Freq. 7)
- Get rid of these old shoes!
- The company got rid of all the dead wood
• Syn:
remove
• Derivationally related forms:
removal (for: remove)
• Hyponyms:
discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away,
chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away,
cast away, put away, slough off, weed out, comb out, work off,
cull, dump, ditch, unmuzzle, deaerate, de-aerate,
decaffeinate, decarbonate, decerebrate, dechlorinate, defat, defibrinate,
degrease, deionize, delist, delocalize, deoxygenate, destain,
desulfurize, desulphurize, detick, devein, fettle, flesh,
flense, kern, pith, scum, unbridle
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. terminate, end, or take out (Freq. 3)
- Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
- Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
- eliminate my debts
• Syn:
extinguish, eliminate, do away with
• Derivationally related forms:
elimination (for: eliminate), eliminator (for: eliminate)
• Hypernyms:
destroy, destruct
• Hyponyms:
cancel out, wipe out, decouple, obliterate, knock out,
drown, cut out, cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise,
snuff out, extinguish, exclude, except, leave out, leave off,
omit, take out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. do away with
- 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:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something