Begin
Rid
Rid verb - To set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- And yet the mud stays there, letting the cycle begin again and ensuring your fort'll be bombarded with respawning meteor trees until you get rid of the mud.
Source: Good Bad Bugs / Simulation Game -
The Hobbit had this once the dwarves finally get rid of Smaug and begin looking for the Arkenstone.
Source: Needle in a Stack of Needles -
In quite a few cases, that "someone/something close" is the very entity he was trying to get rid of to begin with.
Source: My God, What Have I Done?
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Rid and Begin. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/begin/rid
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