What is another word for done away with?

Pronunciation: [dˈʌn ɐwˈe͡ɪ wɪð] (IPA)

Done away with is a phrase that implies the complete elimination or removal of something. Synonyms for this phrase could include abolished, eradicated, terminated, abolished, or obliterated. Other synonyms could be extinguished, removed, expelled, eliminated or exterminated. These words indicate a sense of finality and that the thing in question is no longer present. To make a sentence, one could say "The old system was abolished and replaced with a more efficient one" or "The old tradition was removed and replaced with a new one." Regardless of the synonym used, the message is clear that the thing in question has been thoroughly removed.

What are the hypernyms for Done away with?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Done away with

  • During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
    Bernard Baruch
  • But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
    George Eliot
  • Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.
    Rick Wagoner
  • You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.
    Markus Wolf
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
    Albert Einstein

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