Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) to dispose (of); to remove; to abolish; to lose
WordNet
v. dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood" [syn: remove]
terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics" [syn: eliminate, do away with]
do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia" [syn: abolish] [ant: establish]
Usage examples of "get rid of".
Since an oracle had predicted that he would be killed by his son-in-law, Oenomaus, in order to get rid of her suitors, announced that he would give bis daughter only to the man who beat him in a chariot race.
Thus did society get rid of one of the most bloodthirsty scoundrels that ever polluted it.
He must toast his slippers a long while, in order to get rid of the chilliness which the air of this vile old house has sent curdling through his veins.
He was a lord, but when he told them to get rid of those bloody banners, they never vanished for long.
So let us do our best to get rid of this ideological garbage, lest it inundate the earth.
The only way to get rid of them in the end, though, is going to be by giving the people who live here the prosperity that'll create the capacity to squash the vermin themselves.
The only way to get rid of them in the end, though, is going to be by giving the people who live here the prosperity that’.
Though Warwick would have preferred to get rid of his former rival, he was not yet in a position to do so.