do away with

to eliminate, to get rid of something.

• This custom should be done away with.
• The practice should be done away with.
• Such a custom should be done away with.
• Those old laws were all done away with.
• That custom has long been done away with.
• The practice has long been done away with.
• Such a bad custom should be done away with.
• Such evil customs should be done away with.
• That sort of thing should be done away with.
• The death penalty was done away with last year.
• This practice has long since been done away with.
• They have done away with uniforms at that school.
• The new law has done away with the long-standing custom.
• The American home does away with most housework by using machines.
• The death penalty had been done away with in many states in the USA.
• The death penalty has been done away with in many states in the USA.
• Many in England want to see the public subsidy of the monarchy done away with.
• A student's penmanship used to be graded, but the digital age has done away with that.
• Nowadays, when mass media has already done away with any limits, it seems that one's head has shrunk to the size of an iPhone.