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rid English

Meaning rid meaning

What does rid mean?
Definitions in simple English

rid Verb

— When you rid a thing, you free it of something not wanted. If you rid the house of a bad smell, you can close the window. Yesterday, I rid the town of the bad men.

rid

— verb relieve from Rid the house of pests

Synonyms rid synonyms

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rid English » English

free relieve remove get rid of disembarrass deliver take away scrap do away with dispense with delete clear abolish wipe out wind up waive void vacant utter unlock unhand unchain tube support plate trim temper take suppress strike out spill something somebody shake set free seize ribbed slab ribbed plate ribbed panel rescued rescind repeal relieved released release put forth shoots put away pop pass off of nullify make

Topics rid topics

What do people use rid to talk about?
Physical actions Have, be with Keep something

Throw away
Person Sense, perceive

Smell

Conjugation rid conjugation

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rid · verb

Examples rid examples

How do I use rid in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You must rid yourself of bad habits.
You must get rid of that bad habit.
You should get rid of these weeds.
Tom can't get rid of his cough.
The Miller tried yet other ways to get rid of Johnny, but try as he might, Johnny couldn't be outsmarted.
We need to get rid of that.
We got rid of some old stuff.
Try to get rid of them.
This is exactly the table that Tom wants to get rid of.
Get rid of the evidence.
When bears sleep or lie down, their postures depend on whether they want to get rid of heat or conserve it.
He says he must get rid of the mice that are in the attic.
It is not easy to get rid of bad habits.
It is not easy to get rid of a bad habit.
It's very hard to get rid of bad habits.
A bad habit, once formed, is difficult to get rid of.
We rid his house of mice.
I have not got rid of my bad cold yet.
How can I get rid of him?
We finally got rid of our old car.
I want to get rid of it.
I simply cannot get rid of this bad cold of mine.
The habit of smoking is very difficult to get rid of.
It is very hard to get rid of cockroaches from our house.

Movie subtitles

If there is a small change, she will get rid of us.
Of course, I don't think that it is possible to get rid of all of that.
Why don't you order Ju Wal to get rid of him secretly?
As for the Magistrate, I will get rid of him too.
Why did you get rid of them without my permission?
No, we just followed his order to get rid of the bone remains and stuffs.
Get rid of Kim Eun Oh.
I will bring Arang to get rid of my pain and suffering.
And then, I will get rid of you.
She was awarded the Silver Star, but her superiors wanted to get rid of the problem.
She moved in and we had to have help to get rid off her.
Arbaces orders his slaves to get rid of Nydia.
Get rid of him!
And now I will try and get rid of Bob Adams for you.
Now Lebel finds out that the United Mechanics's most dangerous competitor was behind the poisoning attempts and the stolen drawings, and that now they were thinking of getting rid of him.
Get rid of that moonshine, and let's get out in the sunshine.
Getting rid of the car.
You're rid of those guys now.
And you're rid of me too.
Whoever get rid of it immediately.
Get rid of her.
I've got rid of that adversary for today.
Remember how much it cost to get rid of that baseball player.
He hasn't gotten rid of me.
You're trying to tell me you can get rid of the gangster by ignoring him, by keeping him off the front page.
We have to get rid of that man.
I wanted to get rid of habeas corpus. I should have gotten rid of you.
Peter is his way into, maybe, just one slight advantage of making that happen and being able to get rid of it.
She was five months pregnant when she got married, so she decided to get rid of all of her disgusting fat clothes.
We got rid of something we didn't need.
Well, I got rid of one.
You're going to get rid of her. I think not.
If you do not get rid of that girl I'll do it for you.
Get rid of them or I'll send for the junk man.
I said get rid of them, not paint more. Oh. one picture.
Well, I'm glad to see you get rid of that ghost.
Get rid of the gun.

News and current affairs

Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease.
So the question arises: how are private bondholders to be convinced to get rid of their Greek bonds at a loss if there is a credible buyer of last resort?
Furthermore, the point was not to help private banks get rid of their troubled assets.
While revolutions in the late 1980's and early 1990's were directed against totalitarian communist regimes, nowadays they aim to get rid of this mafia-type post-communism.
They are desperate to enter the global community and rid themselves of a damaged international reputation.
The way that party bosses, in China no less than in Japan, get rid of irksome rivals is to bring them down through public scandals, leaked to an obedient press, which then fans the flames.
DDT largely rid India of kala-azar in the 1950s and 1960s.
If events in the next few months confirm the FARC's demise, Latin America would finally be rid of one of its main scourges over the past half-century.
If one country gets rid of its deficit, it must show up elsewhere.
The monetary union would be rid of a recurring problem, and a eurozone decision to allow or invite Greece to leave would bolster the credibility of its rules.
This confirms a rule that Shleifer and his colleagues intuit: the only way to control bureaucrats is to get rid of as many as you can, permanently.
An even better solution would be to go the European way: get rid of non-recourse loans and develop a system of finance based on covered bonds, such as the German Pfandbriefe.
He also vowed to rid his administration of Habre's security agents and to grant access to the files of a truth commission that investigated Habre's rule.
Indeed, proving that a politician is a liar is just about the only way to get rid of him or her quickly and terminally, which is why the attempt is so attractive to political opponents.
In three years of increasingly bloody conflict, the only diplomatic success was achieved when Assad believed that he faced US missile strikes. He suddenly saw the desirability of getting rid of his chemical weapons.
BRUSSELS - A financial crisis erupts when a large volume of assets in the financial system suddenly appears to be risky and investors want to get rid of their holdings.
First, debt continually grows; second, there is no really satisfactory way of getting rid of it.
Third, advanced and emerging economies that are running chronic surpluses must get rid of them.
Moses wandered with his people in the desert for 40 years, until they had rid themselves of the poisonous slave mentality.
Voters tend to get rid of governments once the incumbents have lost their most precious attribute: the benefit of the doubt.
Companies reduce their superfluous employees' annual bonuses, but do not get rid of them.
They should also be offered the lifting of sanctions on Iraq provided that they - after getting rid of Saddam - accept the resumption of a UN inspection regime.
Although they pay lip service to a continued shedding of extraneous businesses, the chaebol still resist complete rationalization, claiming that they cannot rid themselves of excess capacity so long as they maintain excess employment.
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