Verb: get rid of
- Dispose of
"Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood";
- remove
- Terminate, end, or take out
"Socialism got rid of these archaic customs";
- extinguish, eliminate, do away with
- Do away with
"They got rid of all the old furniture";
- abolish
Derived forms: getting rid of, gets rid of, got rid of
Type of: act, destroy, destruct, move, remove, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], take away, uncreate [literary]