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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪd/
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• rhymes with -ɪd
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• CMU ARPABET: R IH1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The verb is derived from Middle English ridden (“to remove debris, obstructions, etc., from (a place), to clear; to complete (something unfinished); to free (someone or something); to relieve (someone); etc.”), probably from Old English *ryddan (“to remove debris, obstructions, etc., from (a place), to clear”) (the past participle form ġeryd is attested), from Proto-Germanic *riudijaną (“to clear”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewdh- (“to clear land”), or possibly from *Hrew- (“to dig out, tear out; to open; to acquire”). The verb was probably also influenced by the following: * Middle English redden (“to rescue (someone), deliver, save; to rid (someone) of a burden; to free (someone)”) (from which redd (obsolete except Northern England, Scotland) is partly derived), from Old English hreddan (“to deliver, rescue, save; to free; to recover; to take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan (“to rescue, save”), from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną (“to rescue, save; to free; to loosen”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kret- (“to move quickly; to rattle; to shake”); and * Middle English reden (“to arrange; to get ready, prepare; to put in order, tidy; to remove debris, obstructions, etc., from (a place), to clear; to unblock; etc.”) (whence rede (chiefly Scotland, archaic)), from Old English rǣdan, Early Old English rēdan, from Proto-West Germanic *raidijan (“to arrange”), from Proto-Germanic *raidijaną (“to arrange”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2rey- (“to arrange; to count, count out”). The adjective is derived from rid, the past participle of the verb. The noun is derived from the verb. As regards noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 (“progress which has been made; speed”), compare verb etymology 1, verb sense 1.4.5 (“to complete or get through (a task, or work)”). cognates * Dutch redden (“to save, deliver”) * German retten (“to save, deliver”), reuten (“to clear”), roden (“to clear”) * Old Frisian hredda (“to save”) * Old Norse hrōðja (“to clear, strip”), Old Norse ryðja (“to clear, empty”)

The adjective is derived from rid, the obsolete past participle form of ride.

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: raivattu — chiefly of a place: which has been ridded or cleared
• Finnish: sivukivi — loose earth, rubble, etc., on the surface of a quarry which must be removed before digging can begin
• Bulgarian: избавям (izbavjam) — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Bulgarian: отървавам (otǎrvavam) — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Catalan: alliberar — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Dutch: kwijt — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Finnish: päästää — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Finnish: vapauttaa — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• French: débarrasser — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• German: befreien — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• German: vom Halse schaffen — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Hungarian: megszabadít — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Italian: liberare — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Italian: sbarazzare — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Norwegian Bokmål: fri — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Norwegian Bokmål: frigjøre — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Norwegian Bokmål: kvitte — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvitte — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Polish: uwalniać — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Polish: uwolnić — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Polish: wybawiać — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Polish: wybawić — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Portuguese: libertar — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Russian: избавля́ть (izbavljátʹ) — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Russian: изба́вить (izbávitʹ) — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Spanish: liberar — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Ukrainian: звільняти (zvilʹnjaty) — to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance
• Finnish: päästää — to remove (oneself or someone, or something, that is annoying, troublesome, or unwanted)
• French: débarrasser — to remove (oneself or someone, or something, that is annoying, troublesome, or unwanted)
• Italian: liberarsi — to remove (oneself or someone, or something, that is annoying, troublesome, or unwanted)
• Italian: sbarazzarsi — to remove (oneself or someone, or something, that is annoying, troublesome, or unwanted)
• Italian: disfarsi — to remove (oneself or someone, or something, that is annoying, troublesome, or unwanted)