RID OF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rid of mean? 

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

1. do away with

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RID OF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Do away with

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

eliminate; obviate; rid of

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

close out; preclude; rule out (make impossible, especially beforehand)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

I took uneasiness with me, and there was no getting rid of it till I was in Mansfield again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

How do you get rid of them?

(Hazardous Waste, Environmental Protection Agency)

Your body has no natural way to get rid of the extra iron. It stores it in body tissues, especially the liver, heart, and pancreas.

(Hemochromatosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

They are not to be got rid of, for six months at least, unless they could be underlet, and that I don't believe.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well, I am amazingly glad I have got rid of them!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"Then we'll have to get rid of him."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Metabolism also helps get rid of toxic substances.

(Intermediary Metabolic Process, NCI Dictionary)

“Why,” I cried, “the squire's a gentleman. And besides, if we got rid of the others, we should want you to help work the vessel home.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The worthless ones were to be got rid of, and, since dogs count for little against dollars, they were to be sold.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

These men have forced their way into my house, and I cannot get rid of them. Help me to put them out.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)