Rid
[rɪd]
Definition
(-) 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.
(-) of Ride
(-) of Ride
Typed by Jerry
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Free, clear, deliver, disencumber, relieve, set free.
Typed by Harrison
Definition
v.t. to free: to deliver: to remove by violence: to clear: to disencumber: to expel: to separate: to despatch: (obs.) to banish to kill:—pr.p. rid′ding; pa.t. and pa.p. rid.—ns. Rid′dance act of ridding or freeing: destruction: the earth thrown up by a burrowing animal; Rid′der one who rids or relieves.—A good riddance a welcome relief; Get rid of to get deliverance from.
Typist: Margery
Examples
- If you would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have seen people get rid of a good deal of other people's money, and bear it very well: very well indeed. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A four-oared galley hovering about in so unusual a way as to attract this notice was an ugly circumstance that I could not get rid of. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Let, thenthe rains fall, and the floods descend--only I must first get rid of this basket of fruit. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They will go with the reSt. But shall we be right in getting rid of them? Plato. The Republic.
- And then he says I persecute him, that he can't get rid of me. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In short, I shall sell the horses, and get rid of all the servants at once. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Once you saw it again as it was to others, once you got rid of your own self, the always ridding of self that you had to do in war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Evidently this seemed to him the easiest way of ridding the vessel of my presence and killing me at the same time. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- As a matter of justice I must warn you that we only await one of these two excuses for ridding ourselves of so great a responsibility. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Since their last meeting he had half-unconsciously collaborated with events in ridding himself of the burden of Madame Olenska. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Further, water assists in the removal of the daily bodily wastes, and thus rids the system of foul and poisonous substances. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I ha' coom to ask yo, sir, how I am to be ridded o' this woman. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
Editor: Rufus