Definition of Rid

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Definition of Rid

Rid

imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.

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To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.

To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.

To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.

To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.

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Rid Quotations

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
Groucho Marx

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
Edward Kennedy

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
Rodney Dangerfield

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
Jack LaLanne

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
Jack LaLanne

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'Rourke

Rid Translations

rid in Dutch is afhelpen
rid in German is loswerden, befreien
rid in Portuguese is livrado
rid in Spanish is librar
rid in Swedish is bort

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