[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

riddance
     n 1: the act of removing or getting rid of something syn: elimination
     2: the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection
        of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion
        from school" syn: ejection, exclusion, expulsion
see also:
elimination ejection exclusion expulsion 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

70 moby thesaurus words for "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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