- past tense form of ride.
rid
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But she did get rid of years’ worth of letters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"I would say every person that played in the pool that was close to me, apart from one friend who had an operation to get rid of it, is dead," said Michael, 63.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
When the government discharges a borrower’s student loan, it sends information to the borrower’s servicer instructing it to get rid of the loans.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The municipality wasn’t saying, “We want you to stop drilling for oil, or get rid of gas powered vehicles.”
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Aunt Kitty certainly was keen on getting rid of me the second she saw an opportunity.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
You will appreciate the richer flavor and be happy to have finally ridded yourself of those unattractive scrambled-egg bits of white that invariably dot your final product when whole eggs are used in your recipe.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024
"My wife and I both had a really ridded our house as much as possible of single-use plastic," he says.
From Fox News ● Dec. 20, 2021
That may irk some users who thought they’d ridded themselves of the algorithm for good.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2018
Bankruptcy ridded Paramount of at least 265 theaters, slashed the value of its properties to $86,000,000, but failed to make it profitable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh ye gone from the gaze of these ridded eyne, ii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
So, what if ridding your home of plastic helped you finally get your partner pregnant?
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026
The hardest part, consultants say, is ridding parents of the notion they must get their kid into a “name-brand” school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Slicing through 300 miles of land Gilbert desperately wants to keep undisturbed, the line illustrates the stakes she and other rural Oregonians see in ridding grasslands and forests of massive new energy projects.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
Veins stand out in Zak’s neck, and he shakes his head like a wet dog ridding itself of water.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
