Entry Word: rid

Function: verb

Meaning: to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers <worked two jobs to rid himself of debt>

Synonyms clear, disburden, disencumber, free, relieve, unburden

Related Words discharge, emancipate, enfranchise, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter; bail (out), deliver, redeem, rescue; disengage, disentangle, extricate

Near Antonyms bog (down), fetter, restrain, shackle, subject, weigh (down), weight (down)

Antonyms burden, encumber, saddle