get rid of Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb dispose of
   remove.
   
   • Get rid of these old shoes!
   • The company got rid of all the dead wood
2. verb terminate, end, or take out
   extinguish; eliminate; do away with.
   
   • Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
   • Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
   • eliminate my debts
3. verb do away with
   abolish.
   
   • Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia

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