Remove

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English

Verb

Remove (third-person singular simple present Removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)

  1. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
    He removed the marbles from the bag.
  2. (transitive) To murder someone.
  3. (cricket),(transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
  4. (transitive) To discard, set aside (a thought, feeling etc.).
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:
      Die had she rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any should of falsenesse her reproue, / Or loosenesse, that she lightly did remoue.
  5. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
      And loke that ye ryde streyte unto Sir Lucius and sey I bydde hym in haste to remeve oute of my londys.
  6. (intransitive) To change one's residence.
    • 1719 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
      Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.
    • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 20:
      Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.

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Noun

Remove (plural Removes)
  1. The act of removing something, especially removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course
  2. A dish thus replaced, or the replacement
  3. (UK) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
  4. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
  5. Distance in time or space

Adverbs for Remove

dexterously; clumsily; skillfully; cautiously; surreptitiously; slyly; permanently; temporarily; forcefully; promptly; swiftly.

Adjectives for Remove

passionate; energetic; rash; urgent; mutinous; bitter; temperate; tender; lukewarm; childish; indignant; peaceful; final; earnest; useless; obvious; eloquent; angry; rational; resentful.

Thesaurus

abandon, abate, abrade, abscond, abstract, amount, annihilate, assassinate, avulse, bare, bate, beat a retreat, blow, blow out, boot, boot out, bounce, bow out, break, bump, bump off, bust, caliber, can, carry away, carry off, cart away, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cast out, chuck, chuck out, clean out, cleanse, cleanse away, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, compass, curtail, cut, cut out, deconsecrate, decrease, deduct, deep-six, defecate, defenestrate, defrock, degrade, degree, delete, deliver, delocalize, demote, denudate, denude, deplete, deplume, deport, depose, depreciate, deprive, deracinate, derogate, detach, dethrone, detract, detrude, dig out, dig up, diminish, disappear, disbar, discard, discharge, disconnect, discrown, disemploy, disengage, disentangle, disenthrone, dislocate, dislodge, dismiss, disparage, dispart, displace, displume, dispose of, distance, disturb, ditch, divest, do away with, do in, doff, douse, drain, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, drop, drum out, dump, eat away, efface, eighty-six, eject, elide, eliminate, empty, empty out, eradicate, erase, erode, evacuate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exclude, excommunicate, execute, exhaust, exile, expatriate, expel, expose, expunge, exsect, extent, exterminate, extirpate, extract, extricate, extrude, file away, fire, fleece, free, free from, furlough, get out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, give release, give respite, give the ax, give the gate, give the hook, gouge out, grade, grub up, heave out, height, impair, intermit, interspace, interval, jettison, jilt, junk, keep apart, kick, kick downstairs, kick out, kick upstairs, kill, lay aside, lay bare, lay off, lay open, leach, leap, lessen, let go, let out, level, liberate, liquidate, loose, loosen, make a space, make redundant, manhandle, mark, massacre, measure, mine, move, murder, notch, nuance, obliterate, obtrude, oust, outlaw, overthrow, part, part with, pas, peg, pension, pension off, period, pick out, pitch, plane, plateau, pluck, pluck out, pluck up, point, proportion, pull, pull out, pull up, purge, purge away, purify, put aside, put off, put out, quarry, quit, rake out, range, ratio, reach, read out of, reduce, refine, reject, release, relocate, remove from office, replace, reprieve, retire, retreat, retrench, rip out, root out, root up, round, rub away, rub off, rub out, rung, sack, scale, scope, scour out, send, separate, separate forcibly, separation, set apart, set aside, set at intervals, shade, shadow, shear, shed, shift, ship, shorten, shunt, side, slaughter, slay, slip out of, slough, space, space out, stair, standard, step, step out of, stint, strike off, strike out, strip, strip bare, strip of office, strip of rank, subduct, subtract, superannuate, surplus, suspend, sweep away, sweep out, take away, take from, take off, take out, tear out, thin, thin out, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, thrust out, toss out, toss overboard, transfer, tread, turn off, turn out, unbar, unbind, unbolt, unbuckle, unbutton, unchain, unchurch, unclasp, uncloak, unclog, uncover, undo, unearth, unfasten, unfetter, unfoul, unfrock, unglue, unlace, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unravel, unsaddle, unseat, unsheathe, unstick, unstrap, unthrone, untie, unveil, unwrap, uproot, vacate, vanish, vent, void, waste, wear away, weed, weed out, weigh anchor, wipe off, wipe out, withdraw, wrest out

Etymology

From Middle English remeven, removen, from Anglo-Norman remuver, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”)

Pronunciation

Translations

Verb

to take away

References

  • OED 2nd edition 1989

Latin

Verb

removē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of removeō
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