| rid | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: disembarrass, free |
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| riddance | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, expulsion |
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| (noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: elimination |
| riddle | (noun) a coarse sieve (as for gravel) | - |
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| (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma |
| (verb) explain a riddle | - |
| (verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
| (verb) speak in riddles | - |
| (verb) pierce with many holes | - |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
| riddled | (adjective) (often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes | - |
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| (adjective) spread throughout | - |
| ride | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: drive |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement | - |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
| (verb) keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot | - |
| (verb) copulate with | Synonyms: mount |
| (verb) be carried or travel on or in a vehicle | - |
| (verb) sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions | Synonyms: sit |
| (verb) move like a floating object | - |
| (verb) climb up on the body | - |
| (verb) sit on and control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) ride over, along, or through | - |
| (verb) continue undisturbed and without interference | - |
| (verb) lie moored or anchored | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: drive |
| (verb) be sustained or supported or borne | - |
| (verb) be contingent on | Synonyms: depend on, depend upon, devolve on, hinge on, hinge upon, turn on |
| rider | (noun) a clause that is appended to a legislative bill | - |
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| (noun) a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel) | - |
| (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: passenger |
| (noun) a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle) | - |
| ridge | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridgepole, rooftree |
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| (noun) any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane | - |
| (noun) a long narrow natural elevation or striation | - |
| (noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridgeline |
| (noun) a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean | - |
| (noun) any long raised strip | - |
| (verb) form into a ridge | - |
| (verb) spade into alternate ridges and troughs | - |
| (verb) throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides | - |
| (verb) plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip | - |
| (verb) extend in ridges | - |
| ridged | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, carinated, keeled |
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| ridgel | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgeling, ridgil, ridgling |
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| ridgeline | (noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridge |
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| ridgeling | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgil, ridgling |
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| ridgepole | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridge, rooftree |
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| ridgil | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgeling, ridgling |
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| ridgling | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgeling, ridgil |
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| ridicule | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt | Synonyms: derision |
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| (noun) language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate | - |
| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
| ridiculer | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, satirist |
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| ridiculous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous |
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| (adjective) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce | Synonyms: farcical, ludicrous |
| (adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: pathetic, silly |
| ridiculously | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: laughably, ludicrously, preposterously |
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| ridiculousness | (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdity, absurdness |
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| riding | (noun) travel by being carried on horseback | Synonyms: horseback riding |
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| (noun) the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements | Synonyms: equitation, horseback riding |
| ridley | (noun) a marine turtle | - |
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