Definitions for rids

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rids rid

Spelling: [rid]

IPA: /rɪd/

Rids is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in rids (dirs).

Definitions for rids

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:

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:

Origin of rids

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

Examples for rids

All roight, sor; th' b'ys 'll soon mak' it loively for th' rids.

For so this doth, and rids way (as we call it) as fast as a man can run.

This rids us of one hypothesis: the sense of direction is not exercised by the antennae.

Oh unhappy day that it was born; oh happy night that rids me of it.

For so this doth, and rids away as we call it, as fast as a man can run.

He flies far inland, following the plough, and he then rids the land of many a harmful grub.

The nobleman cuts it off, and so rids the village of its fatal visitor.

And every illusion one rids oneself of is so much to the good.

Oh unhappy day that it was born oh happy night that rids me of it.

Sure, they be fires to sthart, fuel to chop, and some protiction to be made aginst an attack av the rids.