• to break away, to break down, to chip, to come away
• to mop, to mop up, to wipe, to wipe away, to wipe off
• to amortize, to extinguish, to quit, to quit, quit
• to clean the blackboard
• he went off with a flea in his ear
• to knock the handle off the jug
• to cut sy's comb, to take the conceit out of sy
• to acquiesce, to bow, to yield