do away with

British  

verb

1. to kill or destroy

2. to discard or abolish

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do away with Idioms  

1. Make an end of, eliminate. For example, The town fathers have decided to do away with the old lighting system .

2. Demolish, destroy, kill, as in The animal officer did away with the injured deer lying by the side of the road . In the 13th century both usages were simply put as do away , the with being added only in the late 1700s.

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Example Sentences

Such systems, which do away with the need for a rudder, are already used on smaller CalMac ferries, making them highly manoeuvrable.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Concerns have been brewing among investors that AI could do away with the need for workers across sectors, from insurance to wealth management to real estate.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

Shortly after writing “love you,” Guthrie decided to do away with the whiteboard completely and began to talk.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

Prasad suggested in his memo that the agency will do away with the practice of relying on studies that measure a recipient’s immune response to a vaccine, rather than measuring clinical outcomes.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

"Well from now on,” said Dad, "we are going to try to do away with unavoidable delay. The victrolas will go in the bathrooms—one in the boys’ bathroom and the other in the girls’ bathroom.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey