- past tense form of ride.
rid
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Police quickly arrived to get rid of the flowers, prompting mourners to create a virtual equivalent of the tree online - where hundreds of thousands of people have since sent tributes and paid respects.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Getting rid of stuff is something we do nearly every week, through donating, trashing and shredding.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
The work also focused on getting rid of "thermal bridges" - which are parts of the home where heat is exchanged rapidly, such as where the insulation is broken up between rafters in your home.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
It would be “a generational project, but that’s okay. It took a generation or two to get rid of them; it can take the same to bring them back.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“We have to get rid of these,” she said.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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
In my youth it was the best part of the year down south because the great breaks could be ridded early and late in the day with few others around.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have ridded ourselves of the cares of dirty acres; and the change, though of less than a week, has had the most beneficial effects on Mary already.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
Roggatz, 35, dutifully got to work ridding his grass of the gifts from his dogs, Django and Scout, with a plastic bag pinched between his fingers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
Some adherents advise parents that the disturbing effects indicate that the treatment is working, ridding the body of impurities, or that the parents should alter the dosage.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025
Hence the virus was intentionally introduced to Australia in 1950 in the hopes of ridding the continent of its plague of European rabbits, foolishly introduced in the nineteenth century.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
