English verb: do away with | |||
1. | do away with (change) terminate, end, or take out | ||
Samples | Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics. Socialism extinguished these archaic customs. Eliminate my debts. | ||
Synonyms | eliminate, extinguish, get rid of | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | destroy, destruct | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | cancel out, cut, cut out, decouple, decouple, drown, except, exclude, extinguish, knock out, leave off, leave out, obliterate, omit, prune, rationalise, rationalize, snuff out, take out, wipe out | ||