riddance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rid=dance

CIDE DICTIONARY

riddance, n. 

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.  Hooker.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

riddance, n. the act of getting rid of something.

Idiom

good riddance welcome relief from an unwanted person or thing.

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

ROGET THESAURUS

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!.