Definition of Do away with

1. Verb. Terminate, end, or take out. "Eliminate my debts"


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

do-rags
do-si-do
do-support
do-well by
do.
do I know you
do a
do a 180
do a Reggie Perrin
do a bunk
do a disappearing act
do a job on
do a number on
do a slow burn
do as I say and not as I do
do away with (current term)
do battle
do business
do by
do dos
do down
do drugs
do for
do good
do in
do it tough
do it yourself

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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