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(v)
(transitive, idiomatic, informal) To abolish; to put an end to; to eliminate.
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To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(transitive, idiomatic) To rid oneself of; to cause oneself to be free of or released from.
(transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
(transitive) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
(transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
(transitive, idiomatic) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.
(transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
To change place.
(transitive, ergative) To make empty; to remove the contents of.
(transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
(idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces).
(biology, ambitransitive) To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
(loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
do away with
(n)
The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
(transitive) To delete.
removal
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
(adj)
Utterly destroyed; eliminated.
(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
(transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
The act of deleting.
(transitive) To remove (markings or information).
(printing, usually imperative) To delete.
(intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
(transitive) To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
(transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
The process of removing or the fact of being removed.
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
(transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
(transitive) To throw away, to reject.
(intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something.
(transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
(transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
The act of loosening or unfastening
(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
(historical, often capitalised, UK, US) The ending of the slave trade or of slavery.
(ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
(transitive) To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
(intransitive) To vanish.
(transitive) (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
Alternative form of phaseout. [The action of phasing out; an incremental removal or reduction.]
(intransitive) To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
The act by which things are disposed, or set out.
(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
(intransitive) To cease moving.
(transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.
(transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
US standard spelling of cancelled. [No longer planned or scheduled.]
(formal, intransitive) To stop.
(transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
The act or instance of suppressing.
(countable) A disposing of or getting rid of something.
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
(transitive) (also reflexive) Followed by of: to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance.
The act or process of making or becoming clear.
(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
To reverse the effects of an action.
(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
(transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
(transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
The act by which something is closed.
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
(transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
(transitive) To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
(transitive) To make smaller.
(transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
(transitive) To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
(transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
(transitive) To remove the possibility of; to rule out; to prevent or exclude; to render impossible.
(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
(transitive) To prevent something from happening.
No longer planned or scheduled.
To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
Separated in time, space, or degree.
A termination or conclusion.
(transitive) To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.