get rid of

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

get rid of (third-person singular simple present gets rid of, present participle getting rid of, simple past got rid of, past participle got rid of or gotten rid of)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) to dispose (of); to remove; to abolish; to lose

   I want to get rid of your influence over my life!

Synonyms

• dismiss
• drop
• lose
• shed
• See also Thesaurus:junk

Related terms

• be rid of

Translations

remove

• Arabic: تَخَلَّصَ ... مِن (taḵallaṣa ... min)
• Belarusian: збаўля́цца impf (zbaŭljácca), зба́віцца pf (zbávicca)
• Bulgarian: изба́вям се (bg) impf (izbávjam se)
• Catalan: desfer-se de, desempallegar-se de (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擺脫／摆脱 (zh) (bǎituō), 摆脱 (zh) (bǎituō), 清除 (zh) (qīngchú), 除去 (zh) (chúqù)

• Czech: zbavit se (cs)
• Dutch: kwijt raken, van af zijn
• Esperanto: forigi (eo)
• Finnish: päästä eroon, hankkiutua eroon
• French: se débarrasser de (fr), se défaire de (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: loswerden (de), abschaffen (de)
• Greek: γλιτώνω από (glitóno apó), διώχνω (el) (dióchno)
• Hebrew: נפטר (he) (niftár)
• Hungarian: megszabadul (hu)
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• Irish: cuir díot
• Italian: eliminare (it), sbarazzarsi, liberarsi (it)
• Japanese: 取り除く (とりのぞく, torinozoku), 免れる (ja) (まぬかれる, manukareru)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: bli kvitt
• Pennsylvania German: aawaerre
• Polish: pozbyć się (pl) pf, pozbywać się (pl) impf
• Portuguese: livrar-se de (pt), desembaraçar-se de (pt) (less common)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: избавля́ться (ru) impf (izbavljátʹsja) (от... ot...), изба́виться (ru) pf (izbávitʹsja) (от... ot...)
• Scottish Gaelic: faigh cuidhteas
• Serbo-Croatian: otarasiti se (sh)
• Spanish: deshacerse (es), quitar (es), desembarazarse (es)
• Swedish: bli av med, göra sig av med (sv)
• Turkish: kurtulmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: позбавля́тися (pozbavljátysja), позбу́тися (pozbútysja)