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For the verb: "to rid"

Simple Past:	rid
Past Participle:	rid

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rid/rɪd/

▶verb (rids, ridding; past and past part. rid or archaic ridded) (rid someone/thing of) make someone or something free of (an unwanted person or thing).

■ (be (or get) rid of) be freed or relieved of.

– origin ME (orig. ‘clear (land)’): from ON rythja.

'rid' also found in these Oxford entries:

avoid - consign - deep-six - delouse - discard - disinfest - disinterested - dispense - dispose - ditch - divest - eliminate - lose - offload - Pied Piper - purge - quit - redd - remove - riddance - root - see - shake - shot - shuck - shut - steam - stick - sweat - system - throw - unload

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