get rid of meaning and definition

GET RID OF verb

Definition of get rid of (verb)

1. dispose of
   • "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
   • synonyms: remove
2. terminate, end, or take out
   • "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
   • synonyms: do away with, eliminate, extinguish
3. do away with
   • "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"
   • synonyms: abolish
   • antonym: establish