verb
definition
To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance.
example
We're trying to rid the world of poverty.
synonyms
definition
To banish.
definition
To kill.
adjective
definition
Released from an obligation, problem, etc. (usually followed by of).
example
I’m glad to be rid of that stupid nickname.
Examples of rid in a Sentence
Maybe he was happy to get rid of her.
He wanted you to get rid of me.
If his family wanted him to come back, they would have to get rid of his current responsibilities.
And he wants me to get rid of them.
If I could get rid of every single one of your kind, I would.
No, I just got rid of the goats and started doing the work you thought I was suited to.
Then our country will be rid of all its unwelcome visitors.
I was just glad to get rid of the stuff.
By now, he had to be desperate to get rid of her.
The man told him he needed to get rid of me and Yancey told him he'd deal with me in his own way.
The people only gave him power that he might rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great man.
He might even get rid of both of them!
We wanted to get rid of what we had, not get more.
You'll have to get rid of the person who's supposed to be there.
Most people haven't even tried because we cannot reasonably imagine a way by which we can be rid of them.
One clue following another until we are together and I rid myself of your foolish games and inconvenient interruptions.
He was hot and sweaty, but he'd not yet been able to rid himself of the wired energy humming through his blood.
He didn't understand both their concern and eagerness to get rid of him, but felt familiar coldness settle into his chest. There had been two other people in the entirety of the universe that cared for him, and the two people with him now were not the same.
Will you help us rid the earth of the Others?
The Test Act was now brought forward, and Shaftesbury, who appears to have heard how he had been duped in 1670, supported it, with the object probably of thereby getting rid of Clifford.
And the doctrine found acceptance among some whom it enabled to get rid of the difficulties raised by Montaigne and those who allowed more difference between animal and animal than between the higher animals and man.
To rid himself of them he closed his eyes.
He feared to give way to his thoughts, yet could not get rid of them.
She bit her lips to keep them from quivering and blinked her eyes to get rid of the blur.
Send me home, get rid of everything that shouldn't be there, and move on.
In spite of the cold, I try to open the window to rid this room of the smoke and whiskey breath of those who visited here, but the frame is frozen fast.
And get rid of the demons. And with that, she strode past them both, towards the door.
When he looked too fast, he still saw the jagged, deep scars that the Healer had gotten rid of.
He'll work with you to get rid of the Others, she said with some impatience.
He'd rid the planet of both.
He'll rid the planet of anything that comes from the immortal world to threaten us.
Quaternions (as a mathematical method) is an extension, or improvement, of Cartesian geometry, in which the artifices of co-ordinate axes, &c., are got rid of, all directions in space being treated on precisely the same terms. It is therefore, except in some of its degraded forms, possessed of the perfect isotropy of Euclidian space.
But they had made up their minds to get rid of him.
Each morning, when they were numbed with cold, I swept some of them out, but I did not trouble myself much to get rid of them; I even felt complimented by their regarding my house as a desirable shelter.
It is good because it's definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.
And don't I see that that idiot had eyes only for Bourienne--I shall have to get rid of her.
He shut his eyes, rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery.
That he came from the mortal world rather than the Immortal one had left a taint on him that no amount of success could get rid of.
That the quantity of heat to be got rid of may become very considerable is seen when it is considered that the energy of a load of 60 tons descending through 50 ft.
Eremophytes.Under this term, are placed plants of deserts rid steppes.
H e rodotus, equally oblivious of the sphere, criticized and Herodotus rid i culed the circular outline of the oekumene, which he knew to be longer from east to west than it was broad from north to south.
For many years Torquemada had been persuading the sovereigns to make an attempt once for all to rid the country of the hated Moors.
In advanced religion, indeed, prayer is the chosen vehicle of the free spirit of worship. Its mechanism is not unduly rigid, and it is largely autonomous, being rid of subservience to other ritual factors.
Its striated plumage also favours this view, as an evidence of permanent immaturity or generalization of form, since striped feathers are so often the earliest clothing of many of these birds, which only get rid of them at their first moult.
Livy could never get rid of the idea that the old struggle between patrician and plebeian was something like the struggle between the nobility and the people at large in the later days of the commonwealth.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria had long been anxious to legalize his position by a reconciliation, and as soon as he got rid of Stamboloff he made advances to the Russian government.
After unsuccessful attempts to rid themselves of the mice, the farmers appealed to the United States Biological Survey, and alfalfa hay poisoned with strychnia sulphate was used successfully in the Humboldt Valley in January 1908 and in the Carson Valley, where a similar plague threatened, in April 1908.5 Minerals.
As the Austrian influence increased Panin found a fresh enemy in Joseph II., and the efforts of the old statesman to prevent a matrimonial alliance between the Russian and Austrian courts determined Catherine to get rid of a counsellor of whom, for some mysterious reason, she was secretly afraid.
When he presented himself before the emperor - apart from rival claimants of his own family - there was an embassy from the Jewish people who prayed to be rid of a monarchy and rulers such as Herod.
The tench is really an excellent fish for the table, if kept in cool, clear water for a few days, as it is the custom to do in Germany, in order to rid it of the muddy flavour imparted to it by its favourite abode.