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Definition of Do away with
1. Verb. Terminate, end, or take out. "Eliminate my debts"
Specialized synonyms: Cancel Out, Wipe Out, Decouple, Decouple, Obliterate, Knock Out, Drown, Cut Out, Cut, Prune, Rationalise, Rationalize, Extinguish, Snuff Out, Except, Exclude, Leave Off, Leave Out, Omit, Take Out
Generic synonyms: Destroy, Destruct
Derivative terms: Elimination, Elimination, Eliminator
Definition of Do away with
1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To destroy, eliminate, or make an end of. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Do Away With
Literary usage of Do away with
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"One permitted invasion of an established right does not do away with the right.
That Congress had debased the coinage one sixteenth would not establish the ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1887)
"... to handle and move, and liable to get out of order; and it is a very Important
feature of the present invention to do away with all these objec- tlons. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"He did not rise far enough above his time to do away with torture, though he
restricted it, and in the century of trials for witchcraft he yielded to the ..."
4. Proceedings by Natural Gas Association of America, Modern Language Association of America (1918)
"66 HERE'S ANOTHER IDEA ON HOW TO do away with "SWEATING" LG MAY, INSPECTOR, LONE
STAR GAS COMPANY, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 000000 =—-=^r; ..."
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