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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun riddance has 2 senses

• riddance(n = noun.act) elimination - the act of removing or getting rid of something; Array
is a kind of remotion, removal
has particulars: simplification
Derived form verb rid₁

• riddance(n = noun.act) ejection, exclusion, expulsion - the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"
has particulars: defenestration, deportation, ostracism, barring, blackball, ouster, ousting
is a kind of banishment, proscription

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THESAURUS

riddance

abandonment, abjuration, break, breakout, cession, clearance, deliverance, delivery, deportation, detachment, discard, discarding, disjunction, dispensation, disposal, disposition, dumping, ejection, elimination, emergence, eradication, escape, escapism, evasion, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extrication, flight, forgoing, forswearing, freeing, getaway, getting rid of, giving up, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jettison, junking, leak, leakage, letting go, liberation, liquidation, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, outlet, prisonbreak, purge, recantation, release, relegation, relinquishment, removal, renunciation, rescue, resignation, retraction, sacrifice, scrapping, setting-free, severance, surrender, suspension, swearing off, vent, withdrawal, yielding

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riddance

Deliverance

N deliverance, extrication, rescue, reprieve, reprieval, respite, liberation, emancipation, redemption, salvation, riddance, gaol delivery, redeemableness, saved, extricable, redeemable, rescuable, Int, to the rescue!.

Loss

N loss, deperdition, perdition, forfeiture, lapse, privation, bereavement, deprivation, riddance, damage, squandering, waste, losing, not having, shorn of, deprived of, denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off, dispossessed, rid of, quit of, out of pocket, lost, long lost, irretrievable, off one's hands, Int, farewell to!, adieu to.

Relinquishment

N relinquishment, abandonment, desertion, defection, secession, withdrawal, cave of Adullam, nolle prosequi, discontinuance, renunciation, abrogation, resignation, desuetude, cession, unpursued, relinquished, relinquishing, Int, avast!, aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben, entbehre gern was du nicht hast, relinquishment, abandonment, renunciation, expropriation, dereliction, cession, surrender, dispensation, quitclaim deed, resignation, riddance, derelict, foundling, jetsam, waif, discards, culls, rejects, garbage, refuse, rubbish, relinquished, cast off, derelict, unowned, unappropriated, unculled, left, Int, away with!.

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