to do away with
88
3.7
- phrasal verb
- /duː əˈweɪ wɪð/
:
deshacerse de
- Let's do away with some of these formalities.
- want to do away with
- do away with the need
- a way to do away with
And unless we have, unless we can do away with that, we're we are done.
- And unless we have, unless we can do away with that, we're we are done.
- Does AI do away with a big bulk of creative writers?
- Now I know that Apple did not do away with her DEI program.
- For that would do away with the immediacy which is essential to it.
- You know why they want to, why they want to do away with higher education.
- And sometimes you can overcompensate to try to do away with those optics.
- It's not going to do away with larger budget produced scripted content.
- So we can do away with it and and help out regular Americans.
- Now, as a practice I suggest that you do away with a conflict between what you have and what you want.
- He says the movement of the world, of culture and faith, does away with this abstraction of the person.
- We can't completely do away with fossil fuels yet, but we can gradually phase them out.
- Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.
- I found that there's one claim that it would make, you know, do away with middle men and there'd be no transaction cost.
Examples
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We won't let our own bureaucracy do away with the life of this innocent girl.
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But I learnt to do away with guilt and accept whatever help was available.
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But here is a crazy idea, why not do away with your super size options?
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An election to do away with the powers of the council will never work.
Academic text (1999) -
We tried to do away with the smoking and it did not go well.
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For both of them, the proper solution is to do away with public welfare entirely.
Academic text (1997) -
We can pass legislation that does away with conflicts of interest by presidents.
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They tell me some people in your country are trying to do away with wine altogether.
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We can't completely do away with fossil fuels yet, but we can gradually phase them out.
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To improve public health, we need to do away with harmful substances in our environment.
Synonyms
∞
1.5
To move something or someone away from a place
∞
3.0
To free someone from something harmful or unwanted
∞
1.6
To remove or throw away something you do not want
502
3.4
Remove or kill something completely so it is gone
477
1.8
To get rid of something you do not want, for example by putting it in the bin
287
2.0
To remove information like text or files so it cannot be seen
189
4.2
Destroy something so nothing is left
156
2.2
Remove all traces of something from memory or history
112
4.1
To officially end a law, system, or practice
85
6.6
Remove something harmful completely, for example a disease or pest
71
7.5
To destroy something completely so nothing remains
60
6.9
To destroy something completely, often on purpose
56
4.1
Deal with and finish a problem or task so it no longer causes trouble
49
6.3
To remove unwanted substances, things, or people by cleaning
37
3.8
To remove unwanted people or things from a group
27
4.0
Remove an outside layer or covering from something to show what is under it
24
6.3
To stop using something because you do not need it
21
8.8
To remove all signs of something like a record or memory so it cannot be found
21
5.5
End something completely, for example a custom or a debt
16
3.8
To get rid of something completely so it no longer exists
10
1.8
To take things away from a place to make it tidy
1
6.0
To reject or get rid of something no longer needed
1
9.9
To destroy something completely, including its root
Antonyms
How Eliminated
85
6.6
112
4.1
88
3.7
∞
1.6
∞
1.5
130
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'do' + 'away' + 'with' literally suggest performing an action that causes something to be removed or go away, so a learner who knows the parts can partly infer a sense of removal or elimination. However, the construction is a fixed phrasal verb with a specific collocational pattern and idiomatic nuance ('abolish/get rid of') that is not fully predictable from the parts alone, making it only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Do away with may come from a simple image: to do a thing so it is away, for example carrying an old chair out the door or throwing it in the bin. That's why the phrase now means 'to get rid of' or 'remove'.