get rid of   (TTS Sound)

The verb get rid of has 3 senses

• get rid of, remove -- (dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood")


• extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with -- (terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts")


• abolish, get rid of -- (do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia")