What are some alternative words for get rid of?
Synonyms for get rid of
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term get rid of.
Princeton's WordNet
get rid of, remove(verb)
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 withextinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with(verb)
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, eradicateabolish, get rid of(verb)
do away with
"Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"
Synonyms:
abolish, extinguish, remove, eliminate, do away with
Wiktionary
Editors Contribution
expulse
Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
get rid of
Synonyms:
dispose of, shift off, cast offget rid of
Synonyms:
be freed from, be relieved from, get clear of, get quit of
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
---|---|---|
#225 | off | |
#246 | take | |
#1337 | transfer | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1551 | hit | |
#1651 | remove | |
#2158 | drop | |
#3169 | lose | |
#4553 | murder | |
#5808 | eliminate | |
#6793 | absent | |
#8245 | shed | |
#8574 | reject | |
#8911 | dispatch | |
#10524 | withdraw | |
#15596 | dismiss | |
#27695 | abolish | |
#28847 | eradicate | |
#32348 | slay | |
#40453 | quench | |
#45925 | extinguish | |
#66079 | annihilate | |
#79750 | obviate | |
#107435 | decimate | |
#110634 | excrete |
How to use get rid of in a sentence?
That was one of the big promises [ of legalizing marijuana ] that if you regulated it, you would get rid of the problems that had traditionally been there with the illegal grows, but it's been really the opposite.
There were some issues with him and his personality that kind of spiraled down, and that's why we had to get rid of him.
A stake purchase in Essar Oil will help Rosneft participate in global trade without being subjected to western sanctions and Essar, which is a cash-strapped group, will get money to get rid of some of its debt.
They used to call it NAFTA, we're going to call it the United States-Mexico trade agreement. We're going to get rid of NAFTA because it has a bad connotation.
The drug works by reducing the number of receptors on the liver that remove LDL cholesterol from the blood. By blocking PCSK9's ability to work, more receptors are available to get rid of LDL cholesterol from the blood and, as a result, lower LDL cholesterol levels.
Translations for get rid of
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- تخلصArabic
- desfer-se deCatalan, Valencian
- zbavitCzech
- loswerden, abschaffenGerman
- [[γλιτώνω]] [[από]]Greek
- forigiEsperanto
- quitar, deshacerseSpanish
- hankkiutua eroon, päästä eroonFinnish
- défaire, débarrasserFrench
- faigh cuidhteasScottish Gaelic
- נפטרHebrew
- sbarazzar, liberarsi, eliminareItalian
- 取り除く, 免れるJapanese
- kwijt raken, van af zijnDutch
- bli kvitt, kvitte seg medNorwegian
- pozbyć się, pozbywać sięPolish
- livrarPortuguese
- scapă deRomanian
- избавиться, избавлятьсяRussian
- otarasiti seSerbo-Croatian
- kurtulmakTurkish
Get even more translations for get rid of »
Translation
Find a translation for the get rid of synonym in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:
"get rid of." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2021. Web. 18 Jan. 2021. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/get+rid+of>.