Answer to "Gets rid of" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SHEDS , but the solution may also be OUSTS which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).

Gets rid of crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SHEDS	18 %	5
OUSTS	8 %	5
EGESTS	6 %	6
SCRAPS	5 %	6
DUMPS	5 %	5
DIVESTS	5 %	7
WEEDSOUT	5 %	8
DISPOSES	5 %	8
ERASES	3 %	6
PURGES	3 %	6
CASTSASIDE	3 %	10
LOSES	3 %	5
TOSSES	3 %	6
AXES	3 %	4
OFFS	3 %	4
DEEPSIXES	2 %	9
TOSSESOUT	2 %	9
SELLS	2 %	5
ABOLISHES	2 %	9
JUNKS	2 %	5
UNLOADS	2 %	7
ELIMINATES	2 %	10
THROWSAWAY	2 %	10
SLOUGHSOFF	2 %	10
DITCHES	2 %	7
REMOVES	2 %	7
PARTSWITH	2 %	9
UNBURDENS	2 %	9

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Gets rid of

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• eliminates
• removes
• erases
• deletes
• dumps
• scraps
• ousts
• urine
• quit
• can
• happen
• happening

Crossword Answer definitions

SHEDS verb

1. To part, separate or divide.
2. To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
3. To pour; to make flow.
4. To allow to flow or fall.
5. To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
6. To pour forth, give off, impart.
7. To fall in drops; to pour.
8. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
9. To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

SHEDS noun

1. An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
2. A distinction or dividing-line.
3. A parting in the hair.
4. The top of the head.
5. An area of land as distinguished from those around it.

SHEDS noun

1. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
2. A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
3. An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
4. (rail transportation) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

SHEDS verb

1. To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result SHEDS

• Backyard structures
• Casts off
• Doffs
• Makes the fur fly?
• Loses a winter coat
• Sloughs
• Drops, as pounds
• Gets rid of
• Tool abodes
• Drops locks

More clues leading to the result OUSTS

• Boots
• Kicks out
• Shows the door to
• Forces to leave
• Banishes
• Sends packing
• Gives the boot to
• Unseats
• Gives the boot
• Deposes

More clues leading to the result EGESTS

• Casts out from the body
• Discharges
• Casts out
• Gets rid of
• Excretes
• Spews
• Expels
• Spews out
• Perspires
• Casts out.

More clues leading to the result SCRAPS

• Aborts
• Leftovers
• Remnants
• Makeshift food for Fido
• Fistfights
• Discards
• Orts
• Bits and pieces
• Gets rid of
• Leftover bits

More clues leading to the result DUMPS

• Jilts
• Unloads
• Down in the __
• Unceremoniously breaks up with
• Gets rid of
• Gets rid of rudely
• Deep-sixes
• Disposes of
• Melancholy.
• Unloads.

More clues leading to the result DIVESTS

• Gets rid of
• Sells off
• Strips
• Strips (of)
• Strips, in a way
• Dispossesses
• Strips (of), as property
• Deprives of anything.
• Unfrocks.
• Deprives (of rank, rights, etc.)

More clues leading to the result WEEDSOUT

• Gets rid of
• Removes, in a way

More clues leading to the result DISPOSES

• "Man proposes, God ____"
• Gets rid (of)
• Throws away, with "of"
• "Man proposes, but God --"
• Criticize a modeling shoot array?
• Arranges (matters).
• Inclines

More clues leading to the result ERASES

• Rubs out
• Formats
• Wipes off
• Clears away
• Rubs the wrong away
• Deletes
• Does some board work
• Gets the word out?
• Obliterates
• Wipes clean

More clues leading to the result PURGES

• Removes political opponents
• Political house-cleanings
• Purifies
• Common practices in totalitarian states.
• Communists' means of quelling opposition.
• Clears of guilt.
• Cleanses
• Rids
• Mass dismissals
• Removes impurities from

More clues leading to the result CASTSASIDE

• Gets rid of
• Disposes of
• Rejects
• Discards

More clues leading to the result LOSES

• Gets whupped
• Gets licked
• Doesn't win
• Falls short, in points
• Sheds, as weight
• Blows it
• Comes up short
• Gets eliminated
• Doesn't carry the day
• Goes down in defeat

More clues leading to the result TOSSES

• Prepares a salad
• Prepares the salad
• Searches a house
• Doesn't sleep well
• Flips, as a coin
• Horseshoes throws
• Casts
• Flings
• Doesn't lie still
• Throws out

More clues leading to the result AXES

• Chops off
• Fires
• Shows to the door
• Terminates
• X, Y, and Z
• Fellers
• Graph lines
• Fire department tools
• Lines in geometry class
• Props in some "The Wizard of Oz" costumes

More clues leading to the result OFFS

• Cricket sides
• Switch choices
• Switch settings
• Murders, mob-style
• Switch positions
• Does in
• Gets rid of
• Takes for a ride
• Whacks
• Slays, slangily

More clues leading to the result DEEPSIXES

• Throws overboard
• Chucks
• Tosses out
• Dumps
• Junks
• Gets rid of
• Jettisons
• Throws in the trash
• Puts the kibosh on
• Puts in the circular file

More clues leading to the result TOSSESOUT

• Chucks
• Gets rid of
• Deep-sixes

More clues leading to the result SELLS

• Goes like hotcakes
• Hawks
• Moves cars
• Successfully persuades
• Vends
• Gets rid of
• Works as a vendor
• Markets
• Works in retail
• Deals in

More clues leading to the result ABOLISHES

• Terminates
• Gets rid of
• Terminates.
• Ends
• Does away with
• Eradicates

More clues leading to the result JUNKS

• Chinese boats
• Discards
• Eighty-sixes
• Deep-sixes
• Throws out
• Chinese ships
• Vessels.
• Yangtze vessels.
• Sights on the Yangtze.
• Gets rid of

More clues leading to the result UNLOADS

• Disburdens
• Gets rid of
• Vents
• Empties
• Sells at a loss, perhaps
• Takes off cargo
• Spills one's guts
• Dumps (on)
• Severely criticizes, with "on"
• Vents frustration

More clues leading to the result ELIMINATES

• Does away with
• Gets rid of
• Deep-sixes

More clues leading to the result THROWSAWAY

• Gets rid of
• Trashes

More clues leading to the result SLOUGHSOFF

• Gets rid of

More clues leading to the result DITCHES

• Gives the slip to
• Gets rid of
• Trenches.
• Excavations.
• Eighty-sixes
• Leaves behind

More clues leading to the result REMOVES

• Sheds
• Eradicates
• Displaces.
• Eliminates.
• Dismisses, as from office.
• Gets rid of.
• Takes away.
• Carries away.
• Eradicates.
• Intervals; degrees

More clues leading to the result PARTSWITH

• Gets rid of
• Gives away

More clues leading to the result UNBURDENS

• Gets rid of
• Takes a load off
• Relieves, as of guilt