different between rid vs rpd
rid
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???d/
- Rhymes: -?d
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 *hradjan? (“to save, deliver”)) and Middle English ridden (“to clear away, remove obstructions”) (from Old English ?eryddan (“to clear land”), from Proto-Germanic *riudijan? (“to clear”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd?- (“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 hr?ðja (“to clear, strip”). More at redd.
Adjective
rid (not comparable) (not used attributively)
- 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 ridden) (ridden is rare and nonstandard)
- (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.
- (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.
- 2008, John H. Goodwin, The Reluctant Spy (page 293)
- (transitive, obsolete) To kill.
Derived terms
- get rid of
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
rid
- (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."
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.67:
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “rid”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- “rid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- D.R.I., DRI, Dir., IDR, dir, dir.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ri?d/, [?ið?]
Verb
rid
- imperative of ride
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
rid
- imperative of ride
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Verb
rid
- present tense of ride
- imperative of ride
Etymology 2
From Old Norse hríð.
Noun
rid f (definite singular rida or ridi, indefinite plural rider, definite plural ridene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by ri
Romanian
Etymology
From French ride.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rid/
Noun
rid n (plural riduri)
- wrinkle, furrow, crease, line (on face)
Declension
Further reading
- rid in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Swedish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?d
Verb
rid
- imperative of rida.
rid From the web:
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rpd
English
Noun
rpd
- (mathematics) Initialism of relative pointwise distance.
Anagrams
- D.P.R., DPR, DRP, PDR, PRD, RDP
rpd From the web:
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- what rpd stand for
- what rpd means
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- rpdr what happened to santino
- rpd what does it stand for