Do Away With

Definition: Do Away With

Do Away With

Verb

1. Terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Do Away With

Abrogation

Countermand, counter order; do away with; sweep away, brush away; throw overboard, throw to the dogs; scatter to the winds, cast behind.

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Ejection

Embowel, disbowel, disembowel; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out, root up; averuncate; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate.

Inaction

Undo, do away with; take down, take to pieces; destroy.

Crosswords: Do Away With

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. (reference)

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Such scenes are sometimes sufficient for the soul, and almost do away with thought.

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Business

The players think that the channel will be part of the system and no vendor can afford to completely do away with it. The inherent advantages of the two-tier distribution model will ensure the sustenance and growth of the channel, which still holds above 70 percent of sales for vendors and will continue to do so. For the sheer scales of economy, the way to market the product to the customer will need a face and a delivery mechanism, and hence the channel. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

If passed, the draft Investment Law would do away with customs duties' exemptions for the import of investors' equipment, materials and personal effects. (references)

Belgium

In early 2000, however, the European Commission urged the Belgian government to do away with the "golden share principle" in the public utility gas company Distrigas. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Afrikaans

afskaf (abolish, abrogate, dispense with, get, get rid of, remove), afruim (dispense with, get, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Albanian

vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هدم (blight, demolish, demolition, destroy, destruction, level, pluck, pull down, sap, smash, take apart, tear, tear down, total), ‏صفى (clarify, clear, close out, colander, comb out, defecate, determine, filter, filtrate, leach, liquidate, lixiviate, mop up, polish off, refine, run, sell off, strain, uncloud, wipe out), ‏إنتحر (commit suicide, destroy oneself, make away with oneself, suicide, take one's own life), ‏ألغى (abolish, abort, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, deactivate, dissolve, eliminate, lift, negate, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, scratch, scrub, set aside, spike, stop, undo, vacate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

премахвам (cut out, delete, do away, eliminate, eradicate, kill, level, make away with, obviate, put down, remove, rid, rip out, smooth, undo), изкоренявам (deracinate, eradicate, exscind, exterminate, extirpate, pluck off, pluck up, root out, root up, unroot, uproot, weed out). (various references)

Chinese 

除 (divide, except, remove, wipe out). (various references)

Czech

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), zbavit se èeho (clear off, get rid of smth., make away with, shift, work off), skoncovat s èím (be through with smth.), odstranit (ablate, clear away, discharge, dismantle, dispose of, eliminate, get out, remove, supersede, sweep, take away). (various references)

Danish

fjerne (dispense with, get rid of, remove), afskaffe (abolish, abrogate, dispense with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Dutch

wegdoen (dispense with, dispose of, get rid of, remove, sell, vend), verwýderen (dispense with, eliminate, get rid of, remove), uitmaken (accomodate, account for, constitute, decide, dispense with, end, extinguish, finish, get rid of, make up, put out, remove, terminate), opdoeken (dispense with, get rid of, remove), elimineren (dispense with, eliminate, get rid of, remove), afschaffen (abolish, abrogate, dispense with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Esperanto

forigi (get rid of, remove). (various references)

Faeroese

beina burtur (dispense with, get rid of, put away, remove, store, throw away, turn away). (various references)

Finnish

raivata tieltä (clear out of the way), poistaa (abolish, deduct, delete, eliminate, exclude, remove, strike out, take out, withdraw, write off), ottaa hengiltä (bump off). (various references)

French

supprimer. (various references)

Frisian

ôftankje (discard, dispense with, get rid of, remove), ôfskaffe (abolish, abrogate, dispense with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

German

abschaffen (abolish, disestablish, dispense with, get rid of, remove, suppress, to abolish, to suppress). (various references)

Greek 

καταργώ (abolish, abrogate, annul, negate, nullify, quash, repeal, rescind), καταλύω τη μοναρχία. (various references)

Hebrew 

לחסל (annihilate, eliminate, liquidate, scotch, wipe out). (various references)

Hungarian

szokást elhagy, megszüntet (abolish, abrogate, cease, discontinue, extinguish, leave off, stop, terminate, to abolish, to cease, to do away with, to end, to extinguish, to lift, to make good, to put down, to terminate). (various references)

Italian

abolire (abolish, abrogate, lift, put down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遣っつける (to attack, to beat, to do away with, to finish off), 遣っ付ける (to attack, to beat, to do away with, to finish off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

やっつける (to attack, to beat, to do away with, to finish off). (various references)

Pig Latin

oday awayay ithway

Portuguese

dar cabo de, livrar-se de (claw off, get rid of, leave out, make away with, shake off), banir (ban, banish, cast out, deport, exile, expatriate, get rid of, ostracize, outlaw, proscribe, relegate, remove, rusticate, sequester, taboo), afastar (alienate, avert, call away, depart, deviate, dispel, distract, diverge, divert, eliminate, estrange, fend, get rid of, hold off, keep away, keep off, lay off, make away, move away, obviate, relegate, remove, repel, retire, rid, separate, wean, withdraw). (various references)

Romanian

înlåtura (dispense with, get rid of, remove), înlãtura (avert, brush aside, cast away, clear, discard, dismiss, disseize, do away, eliminate, forbear, make a clean sweep of smth., move away, obviate, overbear, preclude, remove, save, seclude, supersede, supplant, take away, throw by), îndepårta (dispense with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Russian 

упразднить, покончить с (be through with, polish off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uništiti (annihilate, come to grief, dash, destroy, do for, exterminate, lay low, liquidate, obliterate, polish off, take out, unmake, waste, weed out, wipe out, wreck), ubiti (assassinate, bag, bump off, cut down, do away, kill, make away, murder, put away, slay, wipe out, zap), iskoreniti (deracinate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root, root out, root up, unroot, uproot). (various references)

Spanish

abolir (abate, aboil, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, dispense with, get rid of, remove), abrogar (abolish, abrogate, disestablish, dispense with, get rid of, remove, repeal). (various references)

Swedish

ta livet av (kill), göra av med, avskaffa (abolish, abrogate, annul, lift, repeal). (various references)

Turkish

yok etmek (charm away, clear off, cut off, cut up, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, efface, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, make away with, shatter, spirit away, spirit off, sponge out, stamp, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out), ortadan kaldırmak (abolish, annihilate, blot out, charm away, clear away, clear off, extinguish, hide from view, iron out, kill, make away with, put away, put out of sight, raze, remove, suppress, sweep, sweep away, take away), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), feshetmek (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, countermand, dissolve, outlaw, quash, remit, rescind, set aside, vacate, wash out), ayrilmak (dispense with, get rid of, remove), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Welsh

gwaredu (deliver, redeem, rid, save). (various references)

aboleo, interemerunt, interemistis, interim, interimerent, perdere, relegare. (various references)

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