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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



... was to be held in one of the big conference rooms on the forty-second floor. Melroy was careful to remove his overcoat and lay it on a table in the corner, and then help Doris off with hers and lay it on top of his own. There were three men in the room when they arrived: Kenneth Leighton, the Atomic Power Authority man, fiftyish, acquiring a waistline bulge and losing his hair: ...
— Day of the Moron • Henry Beam Piper

... grow, is extremely inconvenient to my natural impatience. I lament living in so barbarous an age, when we are come to so little perfection in gardening. I am persuaded that a hundred and fifty years hence it will be as common to remove oaks a hundred and fifty years old, as it is now to transplant tulip-roots. I have even begun a treatise or panegyric on the great discoveries made by posterity in all arts and sciences, wherein I shall particularly descant on the great and cheap convenience ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

... bird that is well known to hunters of "big game" by various names such as "Whiskey Jack", "Moose Bird", "Camp Robber", etc. During the winter months, owing to the scarcity of food, their thieving propensities are greatly enhanced and they remove everything from the camps, which looks as though it might be edible. Birds of this genus are smoky gray on the back and lighter below, shading to white on the throat; the forehead and part of the crown is white and the nape ...
— The Bird Book • Chester A. Reed

... Goth should be trembling before the strap of a pedagogue when he ought to be learning to look unfalteringly on spear and sword. These representations were so vigorously made, and by speakers of such high rank in the State, that Amalasuentha was compelled to listen to them, to remove her son from the society of his teachers, and to allow him to associate with companions of his own age, who, not being wisely chosen, soon initiated him in every ...
— The Letters of Cassiodorus - Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of - Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator • Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)

... to remove the poor little child," says Mr. Kelly, in a low, impressive tone, pointing to Mrs. Herrick's little girl. At which everybody laughs heartily, and awkwardness ...
— Rossmoyne • Unknown


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