ridadjective
uk/rɪd/us/rɪd/be rid of sth/sb
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- Have you got anything for getting rid of scuff marks on shoes?
- We can't sell the house because we can't get rid of the sitting tenants.
- The idea of the game is to get rid of all your cards as soon as you can.
- The horses swished their tails to get rid of the flies hovering around them.
- We had to sluice out the garage to get rid of the smell of petrol.
to not now have an unwanted or unpleasant task, object, or person:
I didn't enjoy marking those papers and I was glad to be rid of them.
get rid of sth
B1 to remove or throw away something unwanted:
That cream got rid of my skin rash.
I used weedkiller to get rid of the weeds in the garden.
B1 to sell an old or unwanted possession:
Have you managed to get rid of your old Volvo yet?
get rid of sb
C1 to send away someone annoying or to persuade them to leave:
We got rid of our unwelcome guests by saying we had to go to bed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lacking things
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- be hard up (for sth) idiom
- bereft
- catch
- cry out for sth
- demand
- hole
- lack
- lacking
- need
- need sth like you need a hole in the head idiom
- needful
- short
- take
- the cupboard is bare idiom
- the UN
- unsatisfied
- vacuum
- want
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Removing and getting rid of things
Selling
Punishing someone by sending them somewhere else