DO AWAY WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does do away with mean? 

• DO AWAY WITH (verb)
  The verb DO AWAY WITH has 1 sense:

1. terminate, end, or take out

  Familiarity information: DO AWAY WITH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DO AWAY WITH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terminate, end, or take out

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of

Context example:

eliminate my debts

Hypernyms (to "do away with" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "do away with"):

cancel out; wipe out (wipe out the effect of something)

decouple (reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another))

decouple (eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive))

obliterate (do away with completely, without leaving a trace)

knock out (eliminate)

drown (get rid of as if by submerging)

cut out (delete or remove)

cut; prune; rationalise; rationalize (weed out unwanted or unnecessary things)

extinguish; snuff out (put an end to; kill)

except; exclude; leave off; leave out; omit; take out (prevent from being included or considered or accepted)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

It seemed to quite do away with any doubt, and, after kneeling beside the couch for a while and looking at her lovingly and long, he turned aside.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Do away with war, if the cursed thing can by any wit of man be avoided, but until you see your way to that, have a care in meddling with those primitive qualities to which at any moment you may have to appeal for your own protection.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When you came to me, I was willing to promise anything if you would only do away with the other Witch; but, now that you have melted her, I am ashamed to say that I cannot keep my promises.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Fanny's best consolation was in being assured that Edmund had wished for her very much, and that he should certainly have come back for her, had she not been tired already; but this was not quite sufficient to do away with the pain of having been left a whole hour, when he had talked of only a few minutes, nor to banish the sort of curiosity she felt to know what they had been conversing about all that time; and the result of the whole was to her disappointment and depression, as they prepared by general agreement to return to the house.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)