Synonyms for get rid of
get rid of

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1. get rid ofverb

   Synonyms:
   dismiss, lose, shed, drop

2. get rid ofverb

   to dispose (of); to remove; to abolish; to lose

   I want to get rid of your influence over my life!

   Synonyms:
   lose, shed, drop, dismiss

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1. get rid of, removeverb

   dispose of

   "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

   Synonyms:
   polish off, bump off, eliminate, take away, withdraw, abolish, dispatch, absent, remove, slay, move out, off, murder, extinguish, hit, take, transfer, take out, do away with

2. extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away withverb

   terminate, end, or take out

   "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"

   Synonyms:
   stub out, eliminate, press out, blow out, rule out, wipe out, abolish, remove, decimate, obviate, winnow out, carry off, egest, crush out, annihilate, extinguish, pass, reject, snuff out, excrete, rid of, quench, do away with, eradicate

3. abolish, get rid ofverb

   do away with

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

   Synonyms:
   abolish, extinguish, remove, eliminate, do away with

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1. expulse

   Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

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1. get rid of

   Synonyms:
   dispose of, shift off, cast off

2. get rid of

   Synonyms:
   be freed from, be relieved from, get clear of, get quit of

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1. Boris Johnson:

   I would say to our friends in the EU if they don't want a no-deal Brexit then we've got to get rid of the backstop from the treaty, if Donald Tusk doesn't want to go down as Mr No Deal then I hope that point will be borne in mind by him, too.

2. Kevin Hewison:

   If they go the nuclear option and get rid of one of the parties, entirely dissolve them, then I think you may see people getting really, really, really upset.

3. Danny DeVito:

   There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull How do you hang on to someone who won't stay And how do you get rid of someone who won't go

4. Hillary Clinton:

   I am willing to try now to see whether you can push to get rid of the objectionable parts, to drive a harder bargain on some of the other parts and to provide transparency so the American people can see what would be in a proposed final deal, if I were in the White House, that's what I would be doing right now.

5. New York:

   New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand believe that New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand should protect families who need New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand help, and that is not what ICE is doing today, and that's why I believe you should get rid of it, start over, reimagine it and build something that actually works.