v. 25B6; verb ridding the building of asbestos : CLEAR, free, purge, empty, strip.
25A0; get rid of
we must get rid of some stuff : DISPOSE OF, throw away/out, clear out, discard, scrap, dump, bin, jettison; informal chuck (away), ditch, junk, get shut of; Brit. informal get shot of; N. Amer. informal trash.
the cats got rid of the rats : DESTROY, eliminate, annihilate, obliterate, wipe out, kill.