The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rid \Rid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rid or 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["a]dda, and perhaps to Skr. ?rath to loosen.]
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To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of. [Obs.]
Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
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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.
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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.
--Lev. xxvi. 6.Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!
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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.
--J. Webster.To be rid of, to be free or delivered from.
To get rid of, to get deliverance from; to free one's self from.
Usage examples of "to get rid of".
Mo wants to get rid of drug dealers, so he goes to the extremist Reverend Bill, and the two of them take vigilantism to a new level.
Since an oracle had predicted that he would be killed by his son-in-law, Oenomaus, in order to get rid of her suitors, announced that he would give bis daughter only to the man who beat him in a chariot race.
He must toast his slippers a long while, in order to get rid of the chilliness which the air of this vile old house has sent curdling through his veins.
He was a lord, but when he told them to get rid of those bloody banners, they never vanished for long.
So let us do our best to get rid of this ideological garbage, lest it inundate the earth.
The only way to get rid of them in the end, though, is going to be by giving the people who live here the prosperity that'll create the capacity to squash the vermin themselves.
The only way to get rid of them in the end, though, is going to be by giving the people who live here the prosperity that’.
And pretty soon we were all so hot that we needed to get rid of some clothes.
Military officials feared sabotage, but non-Japanese farmers in the region feared competition even more and were eager to get rid of their Japanese-American neighbors.
If any person wished to get rid of a father, brother, or husband, they only had to apply to M.