Meaning & use
ridding
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Making someone or something free of an unwanted person, thing, or condition.
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The exterminator focused on ridding the house of termites.
She spent the weekend ridding her closet of clothes she never wore.
A note on using this word
Almost always used with 'of,' as in 'ridding the garden of weeds.'
Words with a similar meaning
clearingeliminating
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