(v. t.) To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.
(v. t.) To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.
(v. t.) To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.
(v. t.) To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.
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Example Sentences:
(1) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(2) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
(3) A man in New Zealand suggested that they need to rid the country of cats to protect their native birds.
(4) In a day of chaos for the Lib Dems, Cable strongly denied being involved in attempts by his friend, Lord Oakeshott, to get rid of Clegg, insisting he was strongly behind his leader.
(5) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Install 2 kilowatt solar PV panels 0.4 Buy a new A++ refrigerator if yours is more than 4 years old, and only use a small-screen TV 0.1 Use LED or fluorescent lights where you currently have halogen lights installed 0.1 Buy an automated system to turn off appliances when not in use; get a meter that shows actual energy use and use it to monitor your household 0.1 Only use your washing machine and dishwasher when full to capacity and at lowest temperature 0.1 Never use the tumble dryer 0.1 Get rid of the freezer if you can, and replace your small appliances with "eco" varieties 0.1 Car (1.5 tonnes of CO 2 ) There is one car for every two people in the UK, and each one travels an average of about 9,000 miles a year.
(6) Sadly, there was probably no other way to get rid of Tantawi as minister without Morsi losing his shirt (or his head.
(7) Ultimately, I need to get rid of of crayfish and crayfish products – my dreams are so much bigger than what we are doing right now.
(8) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
(9) "If we come up to 30 June saying that we want democracy, that we want to get rid of religious fascism, and then you see that this happens," Youssef said, "it really doesn't send a good message to the world."
(10) What the Fed isn’t saying is how it plans to get rid of the enormous number of bonds it has bought.
(11) Results using the RID assay in 16 humans and 17 bat liver specimens were compared with those obtained using the Lactobacillus leichmannii microbiological assay.
(12) I told him, but he started saying: 'How can I get rid of this snake?'"
(13) Well, it would be taken more seriously if this newspaper had not been so vehemently committed itself to getting rid of Tony Blair and to putting Gordon Brown in his place.
(14) Despite a consistent antirheumatic therapy (72% on RID's after one year) there was a noticeable increase from 23 to 58% in the prevalence of patients with any erosive changes in the X-ray.
(15) "You can't get rid of a tax responsibly without also getting rid of the spending.
(16) Thank God we have succeeded in ridding ourselves of sectarianism and racism."
(17) These were taken out in 1967 by Australia’s most successful referendum, with more than 90% voting to get rid of this discrimination.
(18) So they got rid of the car, installed low-energy bulbs , insulation and draught-proofing, and a year-and-a-half ago they bought a wood-burning stove .
(19) The review concedes this, and changed the rationale it used to argue in favour of getting rid of the RET.
(20) Attempts to use the phage to rid crown gall tissue of bacteria were unsuccessful.
Riddance
Definition:
(n.) The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.
(n.) The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dunu Roy, of the respected Hazards Centre, which supplies research to Indian NGOs, said his reaction to the news was "good riddance".
(2) One group, Maggie's Good Riddance Party, claims it will hold a "right jolly knees-up" outside St Paul's Cathedral on the day of the funeral and calls on people to turn their back on the procession as it passes by.
(3) The HDS apparently represent the fraction concerned with the efflux of cholesterol from the tissues, so that higher levels may represent a heightened cholesterol-riddance mechanism.
(4) TV montage music for the season's highlights Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day.
(5) One such group, Maggie's Good Riddance Party, plans to hold a "right jolly knees-up" outside St Paul's Cathedral.
(6) Ultimately money may be purely a mean that finally (harking back to its symbolic body origin) will be fully separated from the self in acts of riddance and gifting that vary from exercising power to loving bestowal (Kolb), and from jealous greed to generosity.
(7) When the Olympics finally come to an end, and BBC1 runs its inevitable montage of highlights set to Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) by Green Day , it is worth betting that a vast chunk of it will be set aside for the starmaking, medal-winning turn from Great Britain's male gymnasts on Monday evening.
(8) The move has sharply divided opinion – a dark day says Stuart Jefferies and Lionel Shriver , a good riddance says James Randerson and Lucy Siegle .
(9) But I get these old biddies coming in and saying [adopts faltering Old Biddy voice], 'Ooh, I won't be coming back' and I'm, like, good riddance!"
(10) Good riddance,” a reporter sneered while another grumbled about the England international who was meant to inspire Toronto to their first play-off appearance.
(11) Omar Jamal, the first secretary in the Somali mission to the UN, issued an emailed statement that said: "Good riddance, and [I] hope al-Shabaab leadership will come to their senses and cease the hostility in Somalia."
(12) The Guardian view on scrapping the UK’s non-dom loophole: good riddance | Editorial Read more “The correct belief in enterprise and wealth creation,” Miliband is expected to argue, “has become distorted into an idea that wealth only flows from a few at the top – and they are so important that they should be allowed to operate under different rules.
(13) Put him in jail and good riddance!” Since the Boston bombings, Chechen migrants in the US say there has been a new hostility towards them, and rights activists say it is now harder for Chechens to win asylum in the US.
(14) Johnson knew his father beat his mother, and he just thought good riddance.
(15) The malnourished animals showed delay of consolidation and lower frequency of conditioned avoidance responses, escape responses and holdings as well as higher frequency of anticipatory reactions, vocalization, riddance attempts and touching of surroundings.
(16) Some will say good riddance to widening participation, which they saw as a leftish fad, social engineering imposed on universities obliged to admit “weak” students.