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 Rid, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rid or Ridded; p. pr. & vb. n. Ridding.]
 1. To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of. [Obs.]
    Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked.   --Ps. lxxxii. 4.
 2. To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of. “Rid all the sea of pirates.”
    In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me.   --De Quincey.
 3. To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy. [Obs.]
    I will red evil beasts out of the land.   --Lev. xxvi. 6.
    Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!   --Shak.
 4. To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. [R.] “Willingness rids way.”
    Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails.   --J. Webster.
 To be rid of, to be free or delivered from.
 To get rid of, to get deliverance from; to free one's self from.
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