| 单词 | rid |
| 释义 | rid I. transitive verb 1. archaic a. b. 2. a. archaic b. < succeeded in getting rid of a huge billboard — Edward Bok > < was glad to rid herself of the burden — C.S.Forester > 3. 4. chiefly dialect 5. dialect intransitive verb chiefly dialect Synonyms: < England had in the meantime ridded herself of the Stuarts, worried along under the Hanoverians — Agnes Repplier > < a lazy man's expedient for ridding himself of the trouble of thinking and deciding — B.N.Cardozo > clear is likely to be used to refer to tangible matters which obstruct progress, clutter an area, or block vision < wars which … enabled the United States first to clear its own territory of foreign troops — S.F.Bemis > < rose from the food she had barely tasted and began to clear the table — Ellen Glasgow > and may be used also in relation to ideas that hinder progress < of service to his fellow Methodists in clearing away obstructions to modern thinking — H.K.Rowe > unburden is likely to indicate freeing oneself from something taxing or something distressing the mind or spirit, in the latter situation often by confessing, revealing, frankly discussing < insisted that he unburden himself of most of the weighty chores that go with the job of majority leader — Time > < conquers his own submissiveness and unburdens himself, before his domineering wife, of all the accumulated resentment and dislike — S.M.Fitzgerald > disabuse is likely to refer to freeing the mind from an erroneous notion or an attitude or feeling making clear straightforward thought difficult < if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition — John Adams > < neither familiarity with the history and institutions of Old World nations nor contact with them during two wars disabused the average American of his feeling of superiority — H.S.Commager > purge may refer to cleansing out of or purification from that which is impure or alien or extrinsic < purged of all its unorthodox views — G.B.Shaw > < the room had never quite been purged of the bad taste of preceding generations — Edmund Wilson > In political matters it may suggest ruthless elimination < the dictator has purged academic faculties of every savant suspected of being opposed to his regime — Howard M. Jones > II. chiefly dialect past of ride III. dialect variant of redd V IV. dialect variant of rede |
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