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DO AWAY WITH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Terminate, end, or take out
Example:
eliminate my debts
Synonyms:
do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "do away with" is one way to...):
destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "do away with"):
cancel out; wipe out (wipe out the effect of something)
decouple (reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another))
decouple (eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive))
obliterate (do away with completely, without leaving a trace)
knock out (eliminate)
drown (get rid of as if by submerging)
cut out (delete or remove)
cut; prune; rationalise; rationalize (weed out unwanted or unnecessary things)
extinguish; snuff out (put an end to; kill)
except; exclude; leave off; leave out; omit; take out (prevent from being included or considered or accepted)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
