Local English word record

get rid of

verb · 3 senses

terminate, end, or take out

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Examples

  • Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
  • Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
  • eliminate my debts

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Synonyms

extinguish, eliminate, do away with

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