rid
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹɪd/
rid (not comparable) (not used attributively)
- Released from an obligation, problem, etc. (usually followed by of).
- I’m glad to be rid of that stupid nickname.
- French: débarrasser
rid (rids, present participle ridding; past rid, past participle rid) (ridden is rare and nonstandard)
- (transitive) To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance.
- Synonyms: deliver, disencumber
- We're trying to rid the world of poverty.
- 1170, King Henry II (offhand remark)
- Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?
- 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals ↗", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:
- All the billions in the world and Manchester City still cannot rid themselves of the most persistent thorn in their side.
- (transitive, mostly, obsolete) To banish.
- 2008, John H. Goodwin, The Reluctant Spy (page 293)
- Worst of all were the leeches. The soldiers had managed to rid them from the camp interiors, but once you ventured out on patrol and into the wetlands, they were everywhere.
- 2008, John H. Goodwin, The Reluctant Spy (page 293)
- (transitive, obsolete) To kill.
- (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of ride
- He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted.
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.67:
- "He would have rid that horse, too," pa says, "if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me."
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