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Removed   /rimˈuvd/   Listen
Removed

adjective
1.
Separated in relationship by a given degree of descent.
2.
Separate or apart in time.  Synonyms: distant, remote.  "The remote past or future"


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"



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"Removed" Quotes from Famous Books



... real concession of her reserve—no sacrifice of the feminine privilege of prompt and complete withdrawal. If he had struck a false note, he knew that she would have turned frigid in an instant. But he could not help feeling that some barrier which had existed between them had been magically removed. Her apparent obliviousness to all that under the circumstances might have troubled her was a subtle compliment to himself, and soon he, too, forgot that there was anything in the world beyond their ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... every one's relief, Lady Kitson went upstairs to join her husband, and with her departure some, at least, of the stiffness was removed. ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... up, and heard him begin to revile them, shaking his fist and vowing vengeance. Then Peter shut down the trap-door. It was ill fitted, so that the edge of it stood up above the flooring, also the bolt that fastened it had been removed, although the staples in which it used to work remained. Peter looked round for some stick or piece of wood to pass through these staples, but could find nothing. Then he bethought him of a short length of cord that he had in his pocket, which served to tie one of the saddle-bags ...
— Fair Margaret • H. Rider Haggard
... in a conversation. People no longer formally drink each other's healths; and even the taking wine with each other at dinner has ceased to be fashionable. The taking-off of hats between gentlemen has been gradually falling into disuse. Even when the hat is removed, it is no longer swept out at arm's length, but is simply lifted. Hence the remark made upon us by foreigners, that we take off our hats less than any other nation in Europe—a remark that should be coupled with the other, that we are ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer
... 1856 to 1881, Mr. Guille worked steadily and unostentatiously at the benevolent enterprise which he had inaugurated. Death removed several of his early coadjutors, and for many years he bore all the financial burdens and toiled on single-handed and alone. What was still more discouraging was that he unfortunately had to encounter for a very long time an almost incredible amount of mental supineness on the part of those ...
— Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands • John Linwood Pitts


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