do away with

Verb

Meaning

terminate, end, or take out

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

eliminate extinguish get rid of burke nix end slay rase hit stop kill root remove murder destroy
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Antonyms

garner keep continue build construct collect
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Hypernyms

destroy destruct

Hyponyms

cut prune except exclude omit drown

Examples

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. Margaret Mead

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering. Albert Kesselring

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. Buckminster Fuller

If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us. African Spir

It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will. Margaret Sanger

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage. Charles Baudelaire

Close letter words and terms

do at the same moment do at the same time do away do away with oneself do away with yourself do bad