Definition of "rid" []

• To free from: He was finally able to rid himself of all financial worries. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The cries for gettin rid of the Shuttle and returning to an obsolete means of getting into space is that the Shuttle is unsafe."
• "He had coughed that first day in order to rid is lungs of the lint; and for the same reason he had coughed ever since."
• "I am becoming much more detached emotionally from my fat which I can only see as healthy really, if it doesn’t mean anything it’s not hard to say goodbye and get rid is it?"