do away with

British  

verb

1. to kill or destroy

2. to discard or abolish

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do away with Idioms  

1. Make an end of, eliminate. For example, The town fathers have decided to do away with the old lighting system .

2. 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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Example Sentences

Such systems, which do away with the need for a rudder, are already used on smaller CalMac ferries, making them highly manoeuvrable.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

You could do away with that practice, but that’s not what this settlement is going to accomplish.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

The importance of the toys, which mostly come from China, means the company won’t do away with them again even with a “fairly significant” impact from tariffs, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Typically new technologies create more new jobs, but some analysts contend machine learning and intelligence will do away with many existing jobs.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026

I had plenty to keep me busy the rest of the night: worrying about Mrs. Brisbane and how she planned to do away with me.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney