cashiered, cast (off), chucked, deep-sixed, discarded, ditched, dumped, eighty-sixed(or 86'd), exorcised(also exorcized), flung (off or away), jettisoned, laid by, lost, pitched, rejected, scrapped, shed, shucked (off), sloughed (off)also sluffed (off), threw away, threw out, tossed, unloaded

abandoned, abdicated, deserted, forsookdismissed, kicked outabolished, annihilated, eliminated, eradicated, expunged, exterminated, extinguished, extirpated, liquidated, removed, rooted (out), stamped (out), wiped out

disposed of, set aside

adopted, embraced, took onemployed, used, utilizedheld, held back, kept, retained