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quitclaim collapse: act of transferring a title or right or claim to another; document transferring title or right or claim to another

unburden collapse: take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey"; free or relieve (someone) of a burden

swear off collapse: promise to abstain from; "I have sworn off cigarettes altogether"

divest collapse: reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa"; deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"

exterminate collapse: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

elide collapse: leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"

erase collapse: remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"; wipe out magnetically recorded information; remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

lose collapse: fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"; suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"; allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"; miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"; fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"; fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"; fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"

evacuate collapse: excrete or discharge from the body; empty completely; "evacuate the bottle"; create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel); move out of an unsafe location into safety; "After the earthquake, residents were evacuated"; move people from their homes or country

weed out collapse: remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities"

get rid of collapse: dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

jilt collapse: a woman who jilts a lover; cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly; "jilt a lover or a bride"

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