[General] Who can help me on that sentence?

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He can cure Ashley is to get rid of us, make us disappear.

I don't understand the phrase of above-mentioned of underlined red.

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Hello!

*I AM NOT A NATIVE OR TEACHER.*

Here, "make us disappear", at the end of your sentence, can clarify the meaning of "to get rid of".
"To get ride of" means "to throw out", "to terminate", "to put an end to", etc. Depending on the context it even can mean "to kill".
 
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Well, the whole sentence is confusing, but just ' to get rid of ' means 'to remove' or 'dispose of' generally, but in this case it might mean: You don't need them anymore and you wanna get rid of them, you want to make them disappear.


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Hi,
"But Dr. Keller thinks he can cure Ashley. Then we can get out of here.""Don't be stupid, Alette. Don't you see? The only way he can cure Ashley is to get rid of us, make us disappear. In other words, to cure her, we have to die. Well, I'm not going to let that happen.""What are you going to do?""I'm going to find a way for us to escape."

Is that (link) where your part of a sentence comes from ?

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Thank you, Jaskin. Now it makes sense.

Polyester, it is essential that you quote the complete sentence. Omitting the first three words rendered the sentence meaningless.

Note that a better title would have been 'to get rid of us' as that is the phrase you are asking about.
 

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Thank you, Jaskin. Now it makes sense.

Polyester, it is essential that you quote the complete sentence. Omitting the first three words rendered the sentence meaningless.

Note that a better title would have been 'to get rid of us' as that is the phrase you are asking about.


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What is the problem, Polyester?
 

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It was explained in post #2.
 

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Except that post #2 has "get ride of". This was corrected in post #3.
@Hugo: Your answer was quite good - marred only by the use of the non-word 'wanna'. Please use correct English, because learners here will copy phrases from posts that look authoritative.
 

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Except that post #2 has "get ride of". This was corrected in post #3.
@Hugo: Your answer was quite good - marred only by the use of the non-word 'wanna'. Please use correct English, because learners here will copy phrases from posts that look authoritative.

wanna=want?
 
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