Definition of "get rid of" [get rid of]

• To dispose (of); to remove; to abolish; to lose (verb)

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• "Kadakin said, adding Pakistan had not done enough to get rid of these camps."
• "Snow smiled at the thought of the real landlord hiring a ratter, an exterminator, to get rid of the Lonely Ones"
• "From a comparison made by Mgr Duchesne between the Life of St. Conwoion, the "Indiculus de episcoporum Britonum depositione", and an almost completely restored letter of Leo IV, it would appear that shortly before 850, Nomenoë wishing to be anointed king, and finding opposition among the prelates of Brittany, sought to get rid of them by charging them with simony."