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done away with

done away with is the past participle of do away with.

Meaning of do away with

Verb

do away with (third-person singular simple present does away with, present participle doing away with, simple past did away with, past participle done away with)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To abolish; to put an end to; to eliminate.
    • She tried to do away with the argument by changing the topic.
    Synonyms:
    expunge
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic, informal, transitive) To have someone killed.
    • He plotted to do away with his rival.

Questions about done away with

What is done away with the past participle of?
Done away with is the past participle of do away with.

Words near done away with in the dictionary

  1. done a runner
  2. done a slow burn
  3. done and done
  4. done and doner
  5. done and dusted
  6. done away with
  7. done battle
  8. done bird
  9. done bits
  10. done brown
  11. done business

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Adapted from Wiktionary: done away with (page history and authors); do away with (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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