отказываться от

см. тж. отменять; прекращать

We must do away with the present system.

The ruby laser must be ruled out for fusion purposes.

Here, the engineer should discard (or rid himself of, or abandon, or give up, or dismiss) many old concepts.

This practice has long been discontinued.

The process was dropped as uneconomic.

This design was rejected (or ruled out).

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