Can
Can verb - To let go from office, service, or employment.
Get rid of and can are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Get rid of" instead a verb "Can".
Get rid of
Get rid of verb - Dispose of.
Can and get rid of are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Can" instead a verb "Get rid of".
Both terms in one sentence
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Much mention is made of how the memes of society (the original definition, not the popular one), once widespread, are almost impossible to get rid of and can shape a civilisation for generations.
- The physical symptoms aside, Jekyll even says he can be rid of Hyde any time he wants... but, of course, once he wants to get rid of Hyde once and for all, he can't.
Source: This Is Your Brain on Evil -
His gang can't ever get rid of him because, really, how do you get rid of someone who God allows to go to heaven but outright refuses it because he thinks heaven is for pussies?
Source: Series / Key & Peele
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