get rid of

verb

1. 1

   terminate, end, or take out

   Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics

   Socialism extinguished these archaic customs

2. 2

   dispose of

   Get rid of these old shoes!

   The company got rid of all the dead wood

3. 3

   do away with

   Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia