| 单词 | do away with something |
| 释义 | (phrasal verb) Definition to get rid of (someone or something) They must do away with nuclear weapons altogether. Synonyms get rid of remove The senate voted to remove him. eliminate The Act has not eliminated discrimination in employment. axe (informal) Community projects are being axed by the government. abolish They voted to abolish the death penalty. junk (informal) The socialists junked dogma when they came to office. pull chuck (informal) I chucked a whole lot of old magazines and papers. Don't just chuck your bottles away – recycle them. discard Read the instructions before discarding the box. put an end to dispense with discontinue Do not discontinue the treatment without consulting your doctor. put paid to pull the plug on Additional synonymsin the sense of abolish Definition to do away with (laws, regulations, or customs) They voted to abolish the death penalty. Synonyms do away with, end, destroy, eliminate, shed, cancel, axe (informal), get rid of, ditch (slang), dissolve, junk (informal), suppress, overturn, throw out, discard, wipe out, overthrow, void, terminate, drop, trash (slang), repeal, eradicate, put an end to, quash, extinguish, dispense with, revoke, stamp out, obliterate, subvert, jettison, repudiate, annihilate, rescind, exterminate, invalidate, bring to an end, annul, nullify, blot out, expunge (formal), abrogate (archaic), vitiate (archaic), extirpate (archaic), kennet (Australian, slang), jeff (Australian, slang) in the sense of axe Definition to dismiss (employees), restrict (expenditure), or terminate (a project) Community projects are being axed by the government. Synonyms abandon, end, pull, eliminate, cancel, scrap, wind up, turn off (informal), relegate, cut back, terminate, dispense with, discontinue, pull the plug on in the sense of chuck I chucked a whole lot of old magazines and papers.Don't just chuck your bottles away – recycle them. Synonyms throw out, dump (informal), scrap, get rid of, bin (informal), ditch (slang), junk (informal), discard, dispose of, dispense with, jettisonNearby words of |
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