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