definition of
get rid of

[1] #1 get rid of v. dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood". wn

[2] #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] #3 get rid of v. do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia". wn