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Vinony

do away with

  1. to get rid of something or stop using something
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To abolish; to put an end to; to eliminate.

    “She tried to do away with the argument by changing the topic.”

    “The criminals tried to do away with the evidence before the police arrived.”

  2. To have someone killed.

    “He plotted to do away with his rival.”

    “[…]unless we can begin to understand that the vast majority of those who do away with themselves—and of those who attempt to do so—do not do it because of any frailty, and rarely out of impulse, but because they are in the grip of an illness that causes almost unimaginable pain.”