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"text": "We're trying to rid the world of poverty.",
"type": "example"
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"ref": "1170, King Henry II (offhand remark)",
"text": "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?"
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"ref": "1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291",
"text": "If the Government believes that part of the railways' salvation is to be found in ridding them of extraneous concerns, it should have had the courage either to close the railway works down as quickly as possible, or to hive them off as an entirely separate concern, [...].",
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"ref": "2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian",
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"word": "звільняти"
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"ref": "2008, John H. Goodwin, The Reluctant Spy, page 293",
"text": "Worst of all were the leeches. The soldiers had managed to rid them from the camp interiors, but once you ventured out on patrol and into the wetlands, they were everywhere.",
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"(transitive, chiefly obsolete) To banish."
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"(transitive, obsolete) To kill."
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"ref": "1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 67",
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"ref": "1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291",
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"code": "bg",
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"word": "избавям"
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"sense": "to free from a hindrance or annoyance",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to free from a hindrance or annoyance",
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"sense": "to free from a hindrance or annoyance",
"word": "befreien"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to free from a hindrance or annoyance",
"word": "vom Halse schaffen"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to free from a hindrance or annoyance",
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "to free from a hindrance or annoyance",
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"code": "nb",
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "to free from a hindrance or annoyance",
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"sense": "to free from a hindrance or annoyance",
"word": "kvitte"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to free from a hindrance or annoyance",
"word": "libertar"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "liberar"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"sense": "to free from a hindrance or annoyance",
"word": "звільняти"
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"ref": "1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 67",
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