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[Rid]

When you clear out or eliminate something you don't want, you rid yourself of it. If even one child is allergic to peanuts, a school will often rid the cafeteria of all food made with peanuts.

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imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.

Verb
relieve from; "Rid the the house of pests"

imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.

imp. & p. p.
of Rid

v. t.
To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.

v. t.
To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.

v. t.
To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.

v. t.
To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.

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Rid

Rid , imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. [Archaic]

He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted.

Rid

Rid, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rid ∨ Ridded; p. pr. & vb. n. Ridding.] [OE. ridden, redden, AS. hreddan to deliver, liberate; akin to D. & LG. redden, G. retten, Dan. redde, Sw. r'84dda, and perhaps to Skr. rath to loosen.] 1. To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of. [Obs.]

Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

2. To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of. "Rid all the sea of pirates." Shak.

In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me.

3. To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy. [Obs.]

I will red evil beasts out of the land.

Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!

4. To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. [R.] "Willingness rids way." Shak.

Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails.

To be rid of, to be free or delivered from. -- To get rid of, to get deliverance from; to free one's self from.

imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.

To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.

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Usage Examples

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

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Other Usage Examples

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.