(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.
Ridder
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, rids.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s a common assumption that this level of freedom only works for managers or people who work remotely,” says De Ridder.
(2) But now In Vain, one of his most admired scores, which has been described as one of the most important composed in Europe so far in this century, gets its first British performances with the London Sinfonietta, conducted by André de Ridder.
(3) Fidler's dream never quite got airborne before the hurricane blowing through the American newspaper industry killed off the Knight Ridder lab and all its hopes.
(4) Instead of them punching me on the arm and saying: "Come on, Ridders, it's your round."
(5) Jordan Sibley (@jordansibley) Can confirm that Steve De Ridder to Bolton on loan for a month is our last piece of business for this window.
(6) "Everyone is talking about the sharing economy", said co-founder Christian Ridder.
(7) The Knight Ridder team worked on the assumption that it would – but only if you switched off the printing presses.
(8) "The Knight Ridder lab is working on the software for the flatpad… You can ask the current versions to read stories or information to you (handy if driving).
(9) De Ridder gives the example of online shoe shop Zappos.com , which abolished scripts from its call centre a year ago and gave customer service staff the freedom to deal with complaints however they saw fit.
(10) A previous study (Neumann, E., M. Schaefer-Ridder, Y. Wang, and P. H. Hofschneider.
(11) More or less everything the Knight Ridder dreamers had described was contained in this thing in my hands.
(12) But the real excitement lay in Aspen, where the Knight Ridder newspaper chain had set up a "laboratory" to study the future of news.
(13) Those people expect much more entrepreneurial environments – more freedom to operate, less control,” says Philippe De Ridder, co-founder of the Board of Innovation , a consultancy firm whose mission statement is to “help corporates innovate like start-ups”.