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Antonyms for get rid ofget 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

How to use get rid of in a sentence?

  1. Sunny Jha:

    If we can scale the numbers up, if we can get rid of the hesitancy, if we can eliminate the disinformation, misinformation, I think I'd be a lot more optimistic, but if you're asking me today if I feel like we're on track for summer, based on what I'm seeing now, I don't think we'll be there.

  2. Paolo Trentin:

    I said no way, that I believed the shares were over-valued and that I had heard from others you could not get rid of them afterwards.

  3. Sherrie Nixon:

    They're turning our town into a military base. It's like the front lines of some kind of war zone, please take a stand and at least have them get rid of the razor wire. It's a public nuisance, it's lethal.

  4. Raquel Welch:

    Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

  5. Maureen Malloney:

    He reached out and gave me a hug, he said he would get rid of the illegal immigrants, he will do everything to secure the borders, and enforce the current laws that we have. He will make it a great country.

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