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rid of

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. obviate, rid of, eliminateverb

    do away with

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  1. rid of

    To "get rid of" something typically means to remove, eliminate, or dispose of it. It's a phrase used when you no longer want or need something, or if something is causing a problem or inconvenience and you want it to stop or to go away. "Rid of" might refer to tangible objects, unwanted conditions, feelings, or abstract concepts.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rid of in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rid of in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of rid of in a Sentence

  1. Marco Rubio:

    The solution is not to get rid of a program at a time when we know that the risk of homegrown violent extremism is the highest it's ever been.

  2. Marty Walsh:

    I felt like I was just sad, depressed... maybe not clinically defined depressed, but I was depressed and I had this pit in my stomach, and I wanted to get rid of that. I haven't had that pit in my stomach in over 20 years.

  3. Quintez Brown:

    Get rid of assault rifles.

  4. Paul Ryan:

    They have really jumped the sharks on the left, this is the agency that gets gangs out of communities, that helps prevent drugs from flowing into our schools, that rescues people from human trafficking. They want to get rid of this agency ?

  5. Bernie Sanders:

    Gaddafi, terrible dictator, gotten rid of, right now, ISIS is gaining ground in Libya because of all of the destabilization in the region and all of the turmoil.

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