Rid in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Rid

You can make 3 words from 'rid' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'rid'
• 2 letters words from 'rid'

3 letters words from 'rid'

RID 4

2 letters words from 'rid'

DI 3

ID 3

Definitions and meaning of rid

rid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɪd

Etymology 1

Fusion of Middle English redden (“to deliver from, rid, clear”) (from Old English hreddan (“to deliver, rescue, free from, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną (“to save, deliver”)) and Middle English ridden (“to clear away, remove obstructions”) (from Old English ġeryddan (“to clear land”), from Proto-Germanic *riudijaną (“to clear”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewdʰ- (“to clear land”).

Akin to Old Frisian hredda (“to save”), Dutch redden (“to save, deliver”), German retten (“to save, deliver”), roden (“to clear”) and reuten (“to clear”), Old Norse ryðja (“to clear, empty”), Old Norse hrōðja (“to clear, strip”). More at redd.

Adjective

rid (not comparable) (not used attributively)

1. Released from an obligation, problem, etc. (usually followed by of).

Translations

Verb

rid (third-person singular simple present rids, present participle ridding, simple past rid or ridded, past participle rid or ridded or (rare, nonstandard) ridden)

1. (transitive) To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance.

   Synonyms: deliver, disencumber

   • 1170, King Henry II (offhand remark)

     Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?

   • 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:

     All the billions in the world and Manchester City still cannot rid themselves of the most persistent thorn in their side.

2. (transitive, chiefly obsolete) To banish.
   • 2008, John H. Goodwin, The Reluctant Spy (page 293)

     Worst of all were the leeches. The soldiers had managed to rid them from the camp interiors, but once you ventured out on patrol and into the wetlands, they were everywhere.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To kill.

Derived terms

• get rid of

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

rid

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of ride
   • 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.67:

     "He would have rid that horse, too," pa says, "if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me."

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “rid”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “rid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• D.R.I., DRI, Dir., IDR, dir, dir.

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riːd/, [ʁiðˀ]

Verb

rid

1. imperative of ride

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rid

1. imperative of ride

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

rid

1. present tense of ride
2. imperative of ride

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hríð.

Noun

rid f (definite singular rida or ridi, indefinite plural rider, definite plural ridene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by ri

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Romanian

Etymology

From French ride.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rid/

Noun

rid n (plural riduri)

1. wrinkle, furrow, crease, line (on face)

Declension

Further reading

• rid in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːd

Verb

rid

1. imperative of rida.

Source: wiktionary.org

• containing rice.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)