rid
Base form
rid
/rɪd/
Past simple
rid
/rɪd/
Past participle
rid
/rɪd/
MeaningB2
to remove something you do not want
to get rid of junk
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1We must rid the garden of these weeds before the spring.
- Question · Form 1How did they rid the house of mice in the end?
- Past simple · Form 2Last year the council rid the park of its rats.
- Past simple · Form 2In 2010 the town rid itself of its ugly concrete car park.
- Present perfect · Form 3We’ve finally rid the shed of those wasps.
- Passive · Form 3The kitchen was finally rid of ants after the third treatment.
Watch out
Rid never changes and lives mostly in get rid of: we got rid of the old sofa, not we got ridden of it (ridden is from ride). Rided and riddened are wrong too.
Same pattern
A — A — AAll three forms are the same
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