Example : Get rid of these old shoes!.
The company got rid of all the dead wood.

Synonyms : remove

Example : Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics.
Socialism extinguished these archaic customs.
Eliminate my debts.

Synonyms : do away with, eliminate, extinguish

Example : Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia.

Synonyms : abolish