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gotten rid of

gotten rid of is the past participle of get rid of.

Meaning of get rid of

Verb

get rid of (third-person singular simple present gets rid of, present participle getting rid of, simple past got rid of, past participle (UK) got rid of or (US) gotten rid of)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To rid oneself of; to cause oneself to be free of or released from.
    • Over the weekend he spent some time getting rid of the clothes he no longer wears.

Questions about gotten rid of

What is gotten rid of the past participle of?
Gotten rid of is the past participle of get rid of.

Words near gotten rid of in the dictionary

  1. gotten past oneself
  2. gotten physical
  3. gotten ready
  4. gotten real
  5. gotten religion
  6. gotten rid of
  7. gotten right
  8. gotten right down to cases
  9. gotten right into it
  10. gotten round
  11. gotten round to

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten rid of (page history and authors); get rid of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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