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RIDDANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of forcing out someone or something
Example:
the child's expulsion from school
Synonyms:
ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("riddance" is a kind of...):
banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "riddance"):
defenestration (the act of throwing someone or something out of a window)
deportation (the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien)
ostracism (the act of excluding someone from society by general consent)
barring; blackball (the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto)
ouster; ousting (the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of removing or getting rid of something
Synonyms:
elimination; riddance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("riddance" is a kind of...):
remotion; removal (the act of removing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "riddance"):
simplification (elimination of superfluous details)
Derivation:
rid (relieve from)
