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RID OF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Do away with
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rid of"):
close out; preclude; rule out (make impossible, especially beforehand)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Context examples:
Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It also helps get rid of toxic substances.
(Metabolite, NCI Dictionary)
We know, on the contrary, that he has so much of both, that he is glad to get rid of them at the idlest haunts in the kingdom.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The policeman and I agreed that our best plan would be to seize the woman before she could get rid of the papers, presuming that she had them.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This rang pleasantly in the tailor’s ears; he stretched his delicate head out of the window, and called: “Come up here, dear woman; here you will get rid of your goods.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
This gave me an idea, or the rudiment of one. I must watch how he gets rid of his spiders.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Got rid of her pilots and running into San Francisco. She’ll be there in five or six hours with this wind.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
This system helps tissues get enough oxygen and nutrients, and it helps them get rid of waste products.
(Cardiovascular System, NCI Dictionary)
First-line therapy is followed by other treatments, such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and hormone therapy to get rid of cancer that remains.
(First-line therapy, NCI Dictionary)
