do away withsomething
phrasal verbwithdoverbuk/də//du//duː/us/də//du//duː/did|done
C1
to getridof something orstopusing something:
Theseridiculousrulesandregulationsshould have been done away withyearsago.
Computerization hasenabledus to do away with a lot ofpaperwork.
How could they do away with abeautifuloldbuildinglike that and put acarparkthereinstead?
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandonment
- banish
- be scattered to the four windsidiom
- bin
- castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
- dumping
- erase
- erasure
- evacuate
- evacuation
- exorcism
- expunge
- fling
- scrape
- shoo
- shrug
- shrugsomethingoff
- shuck
- shucksomethingoff
- sling
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Destroying and demolishing