Definitions for riddances

riddances rid·dance

Spelling: [rid-ns]
IPA: /ˈrɪd ns/

Riddances is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 615 anagrams from letters in riddances (acddeinrs).

Definitions for riddances

noun

  1. the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  2. relief or deliverance from something.

Idioms

  1. good riddance, a welcome relief or deliverance from something:

Origin of riddances

First recorded in 1525-35; rid1 + -ance

Examples for riddances

It was a hard blow to native superstitions, but the riddance soon came to be acquiesced in.

His be-whiskered friend did not put in an appearance and Kirtley congratulated himself on the riddance.

But it is for you to accept or reject what I propose as the riddance of this curse to your community.

riddance from it was only a dim hope, the remotest of possibilities.

These were the aggravations of the original idea of riddance, of checking crime by the absolute removal of the offender.

He was well rid of it all, since in the riddance the doors of his prison-house were unlocked.

Dan'l, I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance!'

From the eyes of the world I have already disappeared; and nothing hinders the riddance of me now.

But she did not dress the part very vigorously, and report soon accepted the husband as a bad lot and a riddance.

One step is a riddance of all the servants; I wonder how many you can do with.

Word Value for riddances
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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