cashiers, casts (off), chucks, deep-sixes, discards, ditches, dumps, eighty-sixes(or 86es), exorcises(also exorcizes), flings (off or away), jettisons, lays by, loses, pitches, rejects, scraps, sheds, shucks (off), sloughs (off)also sluffs (off), throws away, throws out, tosses, unloads

abandons, abdicates, deserts, forsakesdismisses, kicks outabolishes, annihilates, eliminates, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extinguishes, extirpates, liquidates, removes, roots (out), stamps (out), wipes out

disposes of, sets aside

adopts, embraces, takes onemploys, uses, utilizesholds, holds back, keeps, retains