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動詞

get rid of (third-person singular simple present gets rid of, present participle getting rid of, simple past got rid of, past participle (UK) got rid of or (US) gotten rid of)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To rid oneself of; to cause oneself to be free of or released from.

   Synonyms: dispense with, abolish, discard, dismiss, drop, lose, remove, shed, shuck; see also Thesaurus:junk

   Over the weekend he spent some time getting rid of the clothes he no longer wears.

   I want to get rid of your influence over my life!

   • March 23, 1727, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift

     to get rid of fools and scoundrels

   • 1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:

     As she goes, you have a wash yourself, and although you will have to change your clothes to get rid of all the coal-dust, you are glad of soap and water and take it easy at last.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel after Sacrifice of the Council:

     Shepard: The Council was always holding us back. When I saw the opportunity to get rid of them, I took it.

   • 2024 April 3, Philip Haigh, “Discord over Avanti West Coast is part of a wider problem”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 52:

     Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham pulled no punches in March 20's Transport for the North board meeting in Leeds. He wants rid of Avanti West Coast. And he may yet get his way, although ministers in London are holding the line at the moment.

   • 2025 October 29, James Steward tells Joe Campbell, “Thriving on the stock exchange”, in RAIL, number 1047, page 45:

     "When it was all British Rail, if they had some redundant sidings, they would dump all their old trains. There wasn't really a pressure to get rid of them. Now, with private companies owning the sites, you have to pay to store vehicles. Nobody wants old vehicles sat around - they can be graffitied, vandalised - and so the onus really is to move them on.

使用する際の注意点

• One is said to get rid of something unwanted or undesirable. The term is not neutral; it implies that the situation is improved by getting rid of that thing. The term belongs to a less formal register than most of the synonyms listed above.

関連する語

• be rid of