riddance

Found in thesaurus: remotion, removal, banishment, proscription

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riddance
n. act of disencumbering, act of freeing from something undesirable

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riddance

Noun
1. the act of removing or getting rid of something
(synonym) elimination
(hypernym) removal, remotion
(hyponym) simplification
(derivation) rid, free, disembarrass
2. the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"
(synonym) ejection, exclusion, expulsion
(hypernym) banishment, proscription
(hyponym) defenestration


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riddance
n. budu ráda, až budeš pryč

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Riddance
(n.)
The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
  
 
(n.)
The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.
  

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Synonyms and related words:
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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