What is another word for Ridding?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈɪdɪŋ] (IPA)

Ridding is a verb that means to free or relieve from something unwanted or undesirable. Synonyms for ridding include disposing, removing, eliminating, eradicating, extracting, expelling, purging, and eliminating. Disposing means getting rid of something no longer needed or wanted. Removing, on the other hand, suggests physically taking something away from a person or place. Eliminating means completely getting rid of something. Eradicating implies getting rid of something completely, especially something harmful. Extracting suggests removing something that is embedded within something else. Expelling means forcing something or someone out of a particular place. Purging means getting rid of unwanted feelings or emotions. Eliminating suggests getting rid of something completely and permanently.

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Usage examples for Ridding

Athena, amused with the tale, had pressed the other to tell her all about it, and Mrs. Stanwood, nothing loth, had proceeded to do so, quoting similar cases, and intimating, with the shrewdness which always distinguished her, how odd it was that more childless women didn't have recourse to so easy, so reputable a way of Ridding themselves of dull and undesirable husbands!
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Susan did not ask what it was, but quietly turned the conversation, and soon succeeded in Ridding Charmian of her faint self-consciousness.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
With her crude ideas, and intense devotion to us all, she might have settled on this method of Ridding the house of its torment.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens

Famous quotes with Ridding

  • Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if — as the war ends, or at least starts to end — if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there — Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?
    Rachel Maddow

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