Riddance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Riddance \Rid"dance\, n.
     1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up
        or out.
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              Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of


              thy field.                            --Lev. xxiii.
                                                    22.
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     2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. "Riddance
        from all adversity." --Hooker.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  riddance
       n 1: the act of removing or getting rid of something [syn: {elimination}]
       2: the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection
          of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion
          from school" [syn: {ejection}, {exclusion}, {expulsion}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "riddance":
     abandonment, abjuration, break, breakout, cession, clearance,
     deliverance, delivery, deportation, detachment, discard,
     discarding, disjunction, dispensation, disposal, disposition,
     dumping, ejection, elimination, emergence, eradication, escape,
     escapism, evasion, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extrication,
     flight, forgoing, forswearing, freeing, getaway, getting rid of,
     giving up, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jettison, junking, leak,
     leakage, letting go, liberation, liquidation, ostracism, outlawing,
     outlawry, outlet, prisonbreak, purge, recantation, release,
     relegation, relinquishment, removal, renunciation, rescue,
     resignation, retraction, sacrifice, scrapping, setting-free,
     severance, surrender, suspension, swearing off, vent, withdrawal,
     yielding