'Riddance' definitions:
Definition of 'riddance'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Riddance'
From: GCIDE
- Riddance \Rid"dance\, n.
- 1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. --Lev. xxiii. 22. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. "Riddance from all adversity." --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'riddance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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