get rid of
Verb
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Verb
get rid of (third-person singular simple present gets rid of, present participle getting rid of, simple past got rid of, past participle (UK) got rid of or (US) gotten rid of)
- (transitive, idiom) To rid oneself of; to cause oneself to be free of or released from.
- Synonyms: abolish, discard, dismiss, drop, lose, remove, shed, Thesaurus:junk
- Over the weekend he spent some time getting rid of the clothes he no longer wears.
- I want to get rid of your influence over my life!
- March 23, 1727, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
- to get rid of fools and scoundrels
- be rid of
- French: débarrasser, défaire
- German: loswerden, abschaffen
- Italian: eliminare, sbarazzar, liberarsi
- Portuguese: livrar, desembaraçar (less common)
- Russian: избавля́ться
- Spanish: deshacerse, quitar, desembarazarse
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