#1 get rid of v. dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood". wn #2 get rid of v. terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts". wn #3 get rid of v. do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia". wn