as in relieving
to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers
worked two jobs to rid himself of debt
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Recent Examples of ridding
An inevitable part of lawn maintenance, ridding your space of weeds often takes hours to do and requires bending, straining, and stretching in less-than-ideal positions to get the job done.
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Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
Many prayed and called for ridding themselves of the divisive, violent rhetoric of the past week.
—Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2025
After seeing how her husband was ridding Buddah of all the mud in his fur, Treasure couldn't resist capturing a video and sharing it on TikTok (@treasuregrill).
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
But simultaneously preserving Patagonia’s independence and ridding the Chouinard and his family of their wealth would necessitate a creative approach to the handling of the company’s equity.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
As of June, Sam's Club was 96% of the way to its goal of ridding its food of artificial colors and other ingredients.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
This filtration system ensures that your floors are getting their most thorough clean, while also ridding your space of irritants like dust that can cause allergy flare-ups.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
As in earlier days, each side dreams of ridding itself of the other.
—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Working alongside newer officers Stacy Sheridan (Heather Locklear), Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed), and Jim Corrigan (James Darren), Hooker dedicates himself to ridding the streets of Los Angeles of dangerous criminals, one collar at a time.
—EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
Many prayed and called for ridding themselves of the divisive, violent rhetoric of the past week.
—Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2025
After seeing how her husband was ridding Buddah of all the mud in his fur, Treasure couldn't resist capturing a video and sharing it on TikTok (@treasuregrill).
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
But simultaneously preserving Patagonia’s independence and ridding the Chouinard and his family of their wealth would necessitate a creative approach to the handling of the company’s equity.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
As of June, Sam's Club was 96% of the way to its goal of ridding its food of artificial colors and other ingredients.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
This filtration system ensures that your floors are getting their most thorough clean, while also ridding your space of irritants like dust that can cause allergy flare-ups.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
As in earlier days, each side dreams of ridding itself of the other.
—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Working alongside newer officers Stacy Sheridan (Heather Locklear), Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed), and Jim Corrigan (James Darren), Hooker dedicates himself to ridding the streets of Los Angeles of dangerous criminals, one collar at a time.
—EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridding
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That goal against the Predators in the Flyers’ 3-1 win in Nashville was particularly relieving.—
Kevin Kurz,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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There are five plush layers in total, starting with a pressure-relieving base and topped off with a cool, soft wool surface.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Sketches such as last night’s Oval Office monologue compact the coal of the administration’s info dumps into little diamonds of comedy, freeing the writers and cast to pursue more escapist fare.—
Erik Adams,
The Atlantic,
9 Nov. 2025
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If confirmed by future research, the approach could provide a powerful new weapon to fight heart disease, the nation's leading killer, freeing people from the need to take statins and other cholesterol-lowering drugs every day.—
NPR,
NPR,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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However, clearing the hurdle of high up-front costs for batteries and chargers will make for lower long-term operating costs.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
6 Nov. 2025
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The researchers built a fully functioning quantum chip based on this qubit to validate its performance, clearing one of the key obstacles to efficient error correction and scalability for industrial systems.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Ridding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridding. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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