cashiering, casting (off), chucking, deep-sixing, discarding, ditching, dumping, eighty-sixing(or 86ing), exorcising(also exorcizing), flinging (off or away), junking, laying by, losing, pitching, rejecting, scrapping, shedding, shucking (off), sloughing (off)also sluffing (off), throwing away, throwing out, tossing, unloading

abandoning, abdicating, deserting, forsakingdismissing, kicking outabolishing, annihilating, eliminating, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extinguishing, extirpating, liquidating, removing, rooting (out), stamping (out), wiping out

disposing of, setting aside

adopting, embracing, taking onemploying, using, utilizingholding, holding back, keeping, retaining