get rid of

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R0237400 (rĭd)tr.v. rid or rid·ded, rid·ding, rids To cause (someone) to be free from something; relieve or disencumber: He was finally able to rid himself of all financial worries.Idiom: get rid of To rid oneself of (something); discard or get free of: Let's get rid of that broken chair.

[Middle English ridden, probably from Old Norse rydhja, to clear land.]

rid′der n.

dispose of

get rid of1. 'dispose of'

If you dispose of something that you no longer want or need, you throw it away or give it to someone.

Hundreds of used computers had to be disposed of.This is the safest means of disposing of nuclear waste.

Be Careful!
You must use of after dispose. Don't say that someone 'disposes something'.

2. 'get rid of'

Dispose is a fairly formal word. In conversation and in less formal writing, you usually say that someone gets rid of something.

Now let's get rid of all this stuff.There was a lot of rubbish to be got rid of.

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	get rid of - dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"removechuck out, discard, cast aside, cast away, throw away, toss away, toss out, put away, throw out, cast out, dispose, fling, toss - throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"slough off - discard as undesirable; "the candidate sloughed off his former campaign workers"comb out, weed out - remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities"work off - cause to go away through effort or work; "work off the extra pounds you have gained over the holidays"; "we must work off the debt"cull - remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd"dump, ditch - sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man"unmuzzle - remove the muzzle from (a dog)deaerate, de-aerate - remove air or gas fromdecaffeinate - remove caffeine from (coffee)decarbonate - remove carbon dioxide fromdecerebrate - remove the cerebrum from (a human body)dechlorinate - remove chlorine from (water)defat - remove the fat fromdefibrinate - remove fibrin from (blood)degrease - remove grease or oil from (a pan)deionize - remove ions fromdelist - remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchangedelocalize - remove from the proper or usual localitydeoxygenate - remove oxygen from (water)destain - remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrastdesulfurize, desulphurize - remove sulfur fromdetick - free (a pet) of ticksdevein - remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp)fettle - remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)flesh - remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufactureflense - strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal)kern - remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters)pith - remove the pith from (a plant)scum - remove the scum fromunbridle - remove the bridle from (a horse or mule)
	2.	get rid of - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"do away with, eliminate, extinguishcancel out, wipe out - wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"decouple - reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)decouple - eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)obliterate - do away with completely, without leaving a traceknock out - eliminate; "knock out a target"drown - get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"cut out - delete or remove; "Cut out the extra text"; "cut out the newspaper article"prune, rationalize, rationalise, cut - weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"extinguish, snuff out - put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"exclude, leave out, omit, leave off, except, take out - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"
	3.	get rid of - do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"abolishcashier - discard or do away with; "cashier the literal sense of this word"abrogate - revoke formally

Translations

get rid of

get rid of (someone or something)

To discard, eliminate, or become free from something or someone. We finally got rid of your younger brother, he's so annoying! Would you please get rid of that filthy couch already?See also: get, of, rid

get rid of

Also, be rid of. Eliminate, discard, or free oneself from. For example, It's time we got rid of these old newspapers, or He kept calling for months, but now we're finally rid of him. The first expression dates from the mid-1600s, the second from the 1400s. Also see get out of, def. 5. See also: get, of, rid

get ˈrid of somebody/something

make yourself free of somebody/something that is annoying you or that you do not want; throw something away: Try and get rid of your visitors before I get there. ♢ I can’t get rid of this headache. ♢ We got rid of all the old furniture.See also: get, of, rid, somebody, something

get rid of

To rid oneself of (something); discard or get free of: Let's get rid of that broken chair.See also: get, of, rid

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