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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

... your attention to some facts. So many of the clergy in your own Church "went wrong" that you were compelled to obtain a special Act of Parliament to enable you to get rid of them. Is it not true, also, that the greatest swindlers of this age have been extremely pious? What do you make of Messrs Hobbs and Wright? What do you think of Jabez Balfour? Are not such scoundrels a thousand times worse ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

... has not yet discovered the fact for himself, the cause of every man's discomfort is evil, moral evil—first of all, evil in himself, his own sin, his own wrongness, his own unrightness; and then, evil in those he loves: with this latter I have not now to deal; the only way to get rid of it, is for the man to get rid of his own sin. No special sin may be recognizable as having caused this or that special physical discomfort—which may indeed have originated with some ancestor; but evil in ourselves is the cause of its continuance, the source ...

— Hope of the Gospel • George MacDonald

... plan, Davis, and if we ever take possession of these rivers, we shall have to do something of that sort to get rid of the brutes. Are ...

— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty

... half-breed!" and then, as he wheeled aghast, to kill him as he moved. But it suited Jean to risk leaping upon the man. Jean did not waste time in trying to understand the strange, deadly instinct that gripped him at the moment. But he realized then he had chosen the most perilous plan to get rid of Greaves. ...

— To the Last Man • Zane Grey

... travelled on a long, dreary, dusty road all day, stopping about noon for two hours at a free nigger's hut, where we got some yams and milk, and about sunset arrived at the station above mentioned, at which we were to dismiss our conveyance; and right glad we were to get rid of it, for we were bumped to death by its ...

— Sketches From My Life - By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha • Hobart Pasha

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