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Remove   /rimˈuv/   Listen
Remove

verb
(past & past part. removed; pres. part. removing)
1.
Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.  Synonyms: take, take away, withdraw.  "Remove a wrapper" , "Remove the dirty dishes from the table" , "Take the gun from your pocket" , "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
2.
Remove from a position or an office.
3.
Dispose of.  Synonym: get rid of.  "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
4.
Cause to leave.  Synonyms: move out, take out.
5.
Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes.  Synonym: transfer.  "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city" , "Remove a case to another court"
6.
Go away or leave.  Synonym: absent.
7.
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.  Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, slay.
8.
Get rid of something abstract.  Synonym: take away.  "God takes away your sins"
noun
1.
Degree of figurative distance or separation.  "It imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy"



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"Remove" Quotes from Famous Books



... acquit, exculpate, release, exonerate, free; dismiss, cashier, remove; excrete, exude, void, eject, emit, expel; pay, liquidate; fulfill, perform; fire, shoot, volley; annul, rescind, invalidate, abrogate, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... the veil before the scene that followed. Near an hour must pass before we can again remove it. The cell then exhibited a group in its centre, over which the lamp shed its feeble light, marking the countenances of the different personages with strong tints and deep shadows, in a manner to bring ...
— The Bravo • J. Fenimore Cooper

... the world ever weighed that much," he said. "Open it up," was the terse command. The case was opened and the base horn pulled out. The baggage officer began operations on the funnel. I watched him remove from the horn's interior two spare blankets, four pairs of socks, an extra pair of pants and a carton of cigarettes. He then inserted his arm up to the shoulder in the instrument's innards and brought forth two apples, a small ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... his error. He was so young; not as old as you, Miggie, and Sarah Warren urged us on. I knew afterward why she did it, too. She is dead now, and I would not speak against her were it not necessary, but, Miggie, she wanted Dr. Griswold, and she fancied he liked me, so she would remove me from her path; and she did. She worked upon my love of the romantic, and Arthur's impulsive nature, until she persuaded us to run away. While we were on the road, Arthur whispered to me, 'Let's go back,' but I said, 'No,' while Sarah, who overheard ...
— Darkness and Daylight • Mary J. Holmes

... man[oe]uvres. He will wear a white belt, the frock-coat of his undress uniform and a cocked hat, and will believe himself to be a Staff officer. He will perform his duties not without efficiency, but will scarcely take enough trouble to remove from the minds of the Volunteers to whom he issues orders, that idea of patronage which is to a rightly constituted Volunteer what a red rag is said to be to a bull. Soon after this, a war having ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 • Various


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