Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)get rid of, remove, wastedispose of“Get rid of these old shoes!”, “The company got rid of all the dead wood”, “We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer”
(v)extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away withterminate, end, or take out“Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics”, “Socialism extinguished these archaic customs”, “eliminate my debts”
(v)abolish, get rid ofdo away with“Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia”