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Verb: do away with
  1. Terminate, end, or take out
    "Socialism did away with these archaic customs";
    - extinguish, eliminate, get rid of

Derived forms: doing away with, done away with, did away with, does away with

Type of: destroy, destruct, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]