TO GET RID OF

Definition: TO GET RID OF

TO GET RID OF

1. To get deliverance from; to free one's self from.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO GET RID OF

Oh, I love my family, but I'd give my six kids to get rid of my wife (The Inspector General; writing credit: Nikolai Gogol, Harry Kurnitz, and Philip Rapp. based on the play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.)

I shall have the power to get rid of you. (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements)

We've got to get rid of that man at once (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby)

We tried everything to get rid of them (The Man Who Knew Too Much; writing credit: Charles Bennett; D.B. Wyndham-Lewis)

If he comes up for anything it'll be to get rid of me. After that my guess is you'll never hear from him again (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie)

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of a Man (reference)

• What's Wrong With Your Golf?: Why You Hit Those Bad Shots, and How to Get Rid of Them (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

If you want me to agree to short race you've got to get rid of that jockey. Credit: Library of Congress.

A convienant [i.e. conveniant] way to get rid of them. Credit: Library of Congress.

That pup. Don't tell Junior, mamma! I'm going to get rid of this mutt! No more night ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We know, on the contrary, that he has so much of both, that he is glad to get rid of them at the idlest haunts in the kingdom

So, on the whole, he was rather glad to get rid of them

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Avoid using petroleum jelly, which is difficult for the body to get rid of and increases the risk of infection. (references)

Your doctor may ask you to scrub your eyelashes for a period of time before surgery to get rid of residues and debris along the lashes. (references)

Therefore, doctors also should treat patients with P. vivax or P. ovale for two weeks with primaquine to get rid of malaria parasites in their livers. (references)

Economic History

Burma

To get rid of the backlog, the university school year has been reduced to three weeks of class and three weeks of exams, which are apparently readily available for sale. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Total imports during 1999 were expected to have slowed down from an earlier estimate of $906 million to $815 million, as wholesalers scrambled to get rid of their old stocks. (references)

Slovak Rep

Furthermore, if the government also manages to get rid of its holdings in Postova Banka, Istrobanka and IRB the share of foreign capital in total banking assets in Slovakia will reach 97 percent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Arabic 

تخلص. (various references)

Chinese 

�"�脫 (break away from, cast away, freeoneself from, to break away, to break out). (various references)

German

loswerden (dispose of, get away from, get out of smb.'s mind, get rid of, lose, rid, rid oneself of, ridded, shake off, shed, shift, shut out, spend, throw off, work off). (various references)

Hungarian

megszabadul vmitől (have off one's hands, to deep-six, to get rid of sg, to get sg off one's hand, to get shot of sg, to get shut of sg, to make a clean sweep of sg, to make a clear sweep of sg, to shuffle off). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

無くす (to lose something), 消し去る (to erase), �'�ね除ける (to brush or thrust aside, to remove), 免れる (to avert, to avoid, to be exempted, to be relieved from pain, to be rescued from, to elude, to escape from, to evade). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なくす (to lose something), まぬがれる (to avert, to avoid, to be exempted, to be relieved from pain, to be rescued from, to elude, to escape from, to evade), まぬかれる (to avert, to avoid, to be exempted, to be relieved from pain, to be rescued from, to elude, to escape from, to evade), けしさる (to erase), はねのける (to brush or thrust aside, to push aside, to remove). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay etgay idray ofay.(various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: dogtrot, dottier, firedog, footier, fritted, goofier, grifted, gritted, ridotto.

-4 letters: dotier, dotter, editor, fidget, fitted, fitter, foetid, foetor, foodie, footed, footer, footie, foredo, forego, forged, forget, forgot, fridge, gifted, girted, goiter, goitre, goodie, goofed, gooier, grotto, oroide, rifted, rioted, roofed, rooted, rotted, titfer, toited, tooted, tooter, toroid, triode.

-5 letters: defog, dirge, ditto, dogie.