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riddance /ˈrɪd(ə)ns /noun [mass noun]The action of getting rid of a troublesome or unwanted person or thing: the new movement emphasized discipline, not riddance or punishment as a method of solving the criminal problem...- Now a time has come when the country, in order to seek the final riddance from terrorism, will have to throw aside its mutual differences and hostilities and rise as a single united force.
- In his 1926 book, Crooke included Hutton's tale as an example of disease riddance by passing a sealed container of contagion; he omitted the Naga storyteller's passing reference to the gift of clothing.
- When riddance by bullet emerges as the most expeditious way to dispose of her husband's victims, she is eventually even prodded into becoming Clint's executioner.
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