Brush
Brush verb - To move or proceed smoothly and readily.
Rid
Rid verb - To set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When the soap wouldn't get rid of it, she went to the kitchen and fetched the wire brush that she used for scraping the potatoes... twenty minutes later she passed out.
Source: Out, Damned Spot! -
The unfinished Mission Hill episode "Supertool" had its b-plot start out with Kevin trying to use the bathroom at school to brush his teeth to get rid of the aftertaste of the schools "Nutrition Loaf".
Source: Mystery Meat -
The victim in The Brush Man, who had accidentally killed a Domestic Abuser in a bar fight years before, and after serving his manslaughter sentence began giving money to the dead man's widow (who was nevertheless relieved to be rid of him).
Source: Series / Cold Case
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