get rid of

Questions about get rid of

What does get rid of mean?

get rid of means "dispose of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for get rid of?

Close synonyms include remove, extinguish, eliminate, do away with, abolish. 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 get rid of a common word?

get rid of is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.