Rid and Take

Rid

Rid verb - To set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers.

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Take and rid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Take" instead a verb "Rid".

Take verb - To reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms.

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Rid and take are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rid" instead a verb "Take".

Nearby Words: taking, taken, taker

power	rid power	take power
life	rid life	take life
people	rid people	take people
part	rid part	take part
Other words: control, time, way, money, damage, seconds.

He tells Cthulu to take him instead of his friends and rid him of his Immortality Hurts curse as only an immortal can kill another immortal.

Source: Take Me Instead
For a while he still had them, couldn't get rid of them safely, and so had to take a drug every day to keep them from growing that would not work forever (perhaps a protease inhibitor metaphor).

Source: Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
The criminal she ends up trying this with kidnaps her for ransom, only to end up begging the group to take her back, take him to jail, ANYTHING to get rid of her.

Source: You Can Keep Her

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