Definitions for RID

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RID rid

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IPA: /rɪd/

Rid is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in RID (dir).

Definitions for RID

noun

1. a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
2. a means of or arrangement for transportation by motor vehicle:
3. the vehicle used for transportation:
4. a vehicle or device, as a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, or merry-go-round, on which people ride for amusement.
5. a way, road, etc., made especially for riding.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of ride.

Idioms

1. be rid of, to be free of or no longer encumbered by:
2. get rid of, to eliminate or discard:
3. ride down, to trample or overturn by riding upon or against. to ride up to; overtake; capture: Nautical. to bear down upon (a rope of a tackle) with all one's weight.
4. ride for a fall, to conduct oneself so as to invite misfortune or injury.
5. ride herd on. herd1 (def 6).
6. ride shotgun. shotgun (def 9).
7. ride the beam, Aeronautics. to fly along the course indicated by a radio beam.
8. take for a ride, Slang. to murder, especially by abducting the victim for that purpose. to deceive; trick:

Verb phrases

1. ride out, to sustain (a gale, storm, etc.) without damage, as while riding at anchor. to sustain or endure successfully.

verb (used with object)

1. to clear, disencumber, or free of something objectionable (usually followed by of):
2. to relieve or disembarrass (usually followed by of):
3. Archaic. to deliver or rescue:
4. to sit on and manage (a horse, bicycle, etc.) so as to be carried along.
5. to sit or move along on (something); be carried or borne along on:
6. to ride over, along, or through (a road, boundary, region, etc.); traverse.
7. to ridicule or harass persistently:
8. to control, dominate, or tyrannize over:
9. to cause to ride.
10. to carry (a person) on something as if on a horse:
11. to execute by riding:
12. to rest on, especially by overlapping.
13. to keep (a vessel) at anchor or moored.
14. Jazz. to play improvisations on (a melody).

verb (used without object)

1. to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
2. to be borne along on or in a vehicle or other kind of conveyance.
3. to move or float on the water:
4. to move along in any way; be carried or supported:
5. to have a specified character for riding purposes:
6. to be conditioned; depend (usually followed by on):
7. Informal. to continue without interruption or interference:
8. to be carried on something, as a litter, a person's shoulders, or the like.
9. to work or move up from the proper place or position (usually followed by up):
10. to extend or project over something, as the edge of one thing over the edge of another thing.
11. to turn or rest on something:
12. to appear to float in space, as a heavenly body:
13. to lie at anchor, as a ship.

Origin of RID

1150-1200; Middle English ridden (v.), Old English (ge)ryddan to clear (land); cognate with Old Norse rythja to clear, empty

Examples for RID

He certainly had warmed a snake on his hearth, and how was he to be rid of it?

“The Americans were a tool, used by the Safis in the Pech to rid them of their competition in the timber trade,” Zalwar Khan said.

Either he must get rid of him, or leave his daughter to manage her own affairs.

The energy is clearly growing to rid this country of the fear-based rule of obtuse, aged white men.

And when you marry you will, as you know, be rid of the responsibility.

In fact, there is still a lot to do to rid the entire world of gay inequality.

But, if he take me at my word, I shall be rid of one of my tormentors.

They fought him and finally caved and shot it, but then got rid of it in the editing room.

He then got rid of all the ridiculous sides of it: like the 10-day calendar, the cult of the Supreme Being, and mass guillotines.

I would have no ill befall her, but I am glad to be rid of her.