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RIDDANCE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of forcing out someone or somethingplay

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 somethingplay

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)

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