GET RID OF

• (verb) 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

• (verb) dispose of

  "Get rid of these old shoes!", "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

  synonyms : remove

• (verb) do away with

  "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

  synonyms : abolish

  when will the Indian government abolish the reservation quota rule! -added by priyavanjeri

  
  -tagged by learner_md
  Imagine the plight of poor people if slavery had not been abolished.

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