Search Result for "get_rid_of":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. dispose of;
- Example: "Get rid of these old shoes!"
- Example: "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
[syn: get rid of, remove]

2. terminate, end, or take out;
- Example: "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
- Example: "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"
- Example: "eliminate my debts"
[syn: extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with]

3. do away with;
- Example: "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"
[syn: abolish, get rid of]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

get rid of
    v 1: dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got
         rid of all the dead wood" [syn: get rid of, remove]
    2: terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on
       Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these
       archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" [syn: extinguish,
       eliminate, get rid of, do away with]
    3: do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century
       in America and in Russia" [syn: abolish, get rid of]
       [ant: establish, found, launch, set up]