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View synonyms for do away with
do away with
verb
to kill or destroy
to discard or abolish
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Idioms and Phrases
Make an end of, eliminate. For example, The town fathers have decided to do away with the old lighting system .
Demolish, destroy, kill, as in The animal officer did away with the injured deer lying by the side of the road . In the 13th century both usages were simply put as do away , the with being added only in the late 1700s.
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