RID (ridded, ridding)

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Irregular inflected forms: ridded    , ridding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rid mean? 

• RID (verb)
  The verb RID has 1 sense:

1. relieve from

  Familiarity information: RID used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RID (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rid    ... he / she / it rids   
Past simple: rid    / ridded   
Past participle: rid   
-ing form: ridding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relieve from

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

disembarrass; free; rid

Context example:

Rid the house of pests

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rid"):

cleanse (purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins)

relieve (free from a burden, evil, or distress)

smooth; smooth out (free from obstructions)

clear (clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.)

disinfest (rid of vermin)

disembody (free from a body or physical form or reality)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody of something

Also:

rid of (do away with)

Derivation:

riddance (the act of removing or getting rid of something)

 Context examples 

To get rid of waste material from the blood, tissues, or organs by a normal discharge (such as sweat, urine, or stool).

(Excrete, NCI Dictionary)

Diuretics help the body get rid of extra fluid and salt.

(Diuretic, NCI Dictionary)

Supposing there was no mistake in the case, and Mr. Murdstone had devised this plan to get rid of me, what should I do?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

First-line therapy is followed by other treatments, such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and hormone therapy to get rid of cancer that remains.

(First-line therapy, NCI Dictionary)

Yes, sometimes; but he has rid out this morning with my father.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It got into my head and I had to write it to get rid of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The act or means of getting rid of something.

(Disposal, NCI Thesaurus)

If you have too much and your kidneys can't get rid it, sodium builds up in your blood.

(Dietary Sodium, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

They will not find the way home again, and we shall be rid of them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As for Wolf Larsen and myself, we got along fairly well; though I could not quite rid myself of the idea that right conduct, for me, lay in killing him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)