0 to not now have an unwanted or unpleasant task, object, or person:
1 to free a person or place of something unwanted or harmful:
In the city, it is hard to rid a building permanently of pests.
Have you got anything for getting rid of scuff marks on shoes?
We can't sell the house because we can't get rid of the sitting tenants.
The idea of the game is to get rid of all your cards as soon as you can.
The horses swished their tails to get rid of the flies hovering around them.
We had to sluice out the garage to get rid of the smell of petrol.
Ultimately, one would also like to get rid of the transversality assumption.
The idea is to get rid of the tree we have so carefully constructed.
By 1961 he had rid himself of his intellectual, bespectacled look, cultivating instead a more friendly look in order to find a wider '^ ' audience.
