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. Harry Emerson Fosdick:

   Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.

2. Val Ramirez:

   They are just a nuisance, we are not going to get rid of them completely. Trapping will never get rid of all of them, but at least we can try to curtail them.

3. Donald Trump:

   Congress has to meet quickly and make a deal. I could do it in 45 minutes. We need to get rid of chain migration, we need to get rid of catch and release and visa lottery. And we have to do something about asylum. And to be honest with you, we have to get rid of judges.

4. Perry Brass:

   The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of “mud mummies” around you, get rid of the mud.

5. TommyZegan:

   Guns aren’t evil people are evil. Once we get rid of evil we can get rid of guns.