Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To free from: He was finally able to rid himself of all financial worries.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To take away; remove, as from a position of trouble or danger; deliver.
- To separate or free from anything superfluous or objectionable; disencumber; clear.
- To send or drive away; expel; banish.
- To clear away; disencumber or clear one's self of; get rid of.
- Specifically— To part from; dispose of; spend.
- To get through or over; accomplish; achieve; despatch.
- To put out of the way; destroy; kill.
- To part; put asunder; separate.
- Free; clear; quit; relieved: followed by of.
- An obsolete or dialectal preterit of ride.
- A dialectal variant of red.
- n. A variant of red.
Wiktionary
- adj. released from an obligation, problem, etc. (usually followed by "of")
- v. To free from something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Archaic imp. & p. p. of ride, v. i.
- v. obsolete To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with
out of . - v. To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by
of . - v. obsolete To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.
- v. rare To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.
WordNet 3.0
- v. relieve from
Etymologies
- Fusion of Middle English redden ("to deliver from, rid, clear") (from Old English hreddan ("to deliver, rescue, free from, take away"), from Proto-Germanic *hradjanan (“to save, deliver”)) and Middle English ridden ("to clear away, remove obstructions") (from Old English ġeryddan ("to clear land"), from Proto-Germanic *riudijanan (“to clear”)). Akin to Old Frisian hredda ("to save"), German retten ("to save, deliver"), Old Norse ryðja ("to clear, empty"), Old Norse hrōðja ("to clear, strip"). More at redd. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English ridden, from Old Norse rydhja, to clear land, from hrjōdha, to strip, clear. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The cries for gettin rid of the Shuttle and returning to an obsolete means of getting into space is that the Shuttle is unsafe.”
“He had coughed that first day in order to rid is lungs of the lint; and for the same reason he had coughed ever since.”
“I am becoming much more detached emotionally from my fat which I can only see as healthy really, if it doesn’t mean anything it’s not hard to say goodbye and get rid is it?”
“These terms rid Natura of a great part of that insupportable constraint he had been under, but gave not the least satisfaction, as to his jealousy of honour; he doubted not but she would be guilty of many things, injurious in the highest degree to their public character, and which yet it would not so well become him to exert his authority in opposing, and these reflections gave him the most terrible inquietude; which shews, that though _jealousy_ is called the child of _love_, it is very possible to feel all the tortures of the”
Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
“Patrick never, like the Pied Piper, charmed actual snakes into mass suicide so the Irish people wouldn't ever have to worry about them again -- but he did "rid" the island of the snake-tattooed Druids, in a way.”
“Also note the reference to chasing them "back to their caves," not to mention the outright call for getting "rid" of them -- them being, again, the Muslims.”
“Yes, of course, he does not mean all teachers, and yes, of course, by "rid" he simply meant not rehiring teachers who cannot, for whatever reasons, adequately teach.”
“There was never any attempt to "rid" the area of the few Arabs that there were, or of those Arabs that immigrated into this area along with the Jews.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Reuters Trafic on the highway in front of Beijing's National Olympic Stadium, also known as the 'rid's Nest.' which will host the Opening Ceremonies.”
The Wall Street Journal: China Maps Out New Route to Cleaner Air
“Crude as it was, it was good enough to "rid" Germany of twelve million "undesirables" in only a few years.”
Humanity's Final, Final Solution: Resistance will be futile.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rid’.
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Roots
act, aer, ambul, ami, amo, anim, ann, enn, arch, rcha, rchae, archi and 139 more...
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WORDNIK - words found in "Wordnik"
kino, inro, indow, in, ikon, id, drown, drink, down, ink, dork, dor and 54 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Danagrams
void, relearn, rain, reordain, evil, real, divine, evildoer, varied, role, loner, dire and 85 more...
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comewalk's Words
weblog, blog, weird, blogging, awesome, word, moody, swing, wtf, imho, investigate, rid and 47 more...
Tweets
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