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/gɛt rɪd əv/ Listen

verb

Rid v. t. (past & past part. rid; pres. part. ridding)

To save; to rescue; to deliver; with out of. (Obs.) "Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked."

To free; to clear; to disencumber; followed by of. "Rid all the sea of pirates." "In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me."

To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy. (Obs.) "I will red evil beasts out of the land." "Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!"

To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. (R.) "Willingness rids way." "Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails."

To be rid of, to be free or delivered from.

To get rid of, to get deliverance from; to free one's self from.

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"Get rid of" Quotes from Famous Books

... got no wages, and whom it was not worth while even to feed and clothe properly, because they were so cheap and their places could be so easily supplied. It was often arranged by the parish authorities, in order to get rid of imbeciles, that one idiot should be taken by the mill owener with every twenty sane children. The fate of these unhappy idiots was even worse than that of the others. The secret of their final end has ...

— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair

... Empire. England began as a sovereign power, having its sovereignty vested at first solely in the Sovereign, but gradually in the Sovereign and Parliament. This sovereignty neither the Crown nor the Parliament can, jointly or severally, get rid of, for it is of the very essence of a sovereign power that it cannot, by Act of Parliament or otherwise, bind its successors.[10] This principle of supremacy has never been lost sight of by the British Parliament. ...

— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.

... in a hushed voice, 'you almost scare me. There seems to be no limit to your powers as a mascot. You fill the house every night, you get rid of the Weaver woman, and now you tell me this. I drew Crane in the sweep, and I would have taken twopence for ...

— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... had our testing-table, which stood on two large pillars of brick built deep into the earth in order to get rid of all vibrations on account of the sensitive instruments that were upon it. There was the Thomson reflecting mirror galvanometer and electrometer, while nearby were the standard cells by which the galvanometers were adjusted and standardized. This testing-table was connected by means of wires ...

— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

... to me?" cried the herd-boy; and he whipped off the cap and threw it to a little distance, with the result that half a dozen pigs rushed at it; and as he made a brave fight to get rid of his enemy, the last that Robin saw of his velvet cap and plume was that one black pig tore out the feather, while another was champing the ...

— Young Robin Hood • G. Manville Fenn

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