do away with

Questions about do away with

What does do away with mean?

do away with means "terminate, end, or take out".

What is another word for do away with?

Close synonyms include extinguish, eliminate, get rid of. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is do away with a common word?

do away with is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.