remove
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (8)removes, removed, removing
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract“remove a threat”“remove a wrapper”“Remove the dirty dishes from the table”“take the gun from your pocket”“This machine withdraws heat from the environment”“Take that weight off me!”“pull the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf”Synonyms: taketake awaywithdrawtake offpullMore general act, moveMore specific shed, draw, take away, dig, extract, unpack, scoop, undress, dislodge, clean +88 more
- remove from a position or an officeMore general act, moveMore specific displace, drop, oust, bench, pull off, winkle out, unseat, invalid, retire
- dispose of“Get rid of these old shoes!”“The company got rid of all the dead wood”“We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer”Synonyms: get rid ofwasteMore general act, moveMore specific discard, obviate, weed out, dump, decarbonate, fettle, desulfurize, destain, detick, cull +20 more
- cause to leave“The teacher took the children out of the classroom”Synonyms: take outmove outMore general induce, stimulateMore specific call in, clear, estrangeCauses move
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes“He removed his children to the countryside”“Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city”“remove a case to another court”Synonyms: transferMore general transfer, shiftMore specific exfiltrate
- stay away or leave“He absented himself”Synonyms: absentMore general disappear, vanish
- kill intentionally and with premeditation“The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered”Synonyms: murderslayhitdispatchbump offoffpolish off
- get rid of something abstract“The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage”“God takes away your sins”Synonyms: take away
Noun (1)removes
- degree of figurative distance or separation“just one remove from madness”“it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy”Type of distance
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Translations
Verb to take away
- Spanish
- quitar
- French
- enlever
- German
- entfernen
- Italian
- rimuovere
- Portuguese
- remover
- Turkish
- çıkarmak
- Russian
- удаля́ть udaljátʹ
- Arabic
- أَزَالَ ʔazāla
- Chinese
- 除去 chúqù
- Japanese
- 取り除く torinozoku
19 more languages
- Dutch
- verwijderen
- Polish
- usuwać
- Swedish
- avlägsna
- Greek
- βγάζω vgázo
- Korean
- 치우다 chiuda
- Hungarian
- eltávolít
- Portuguese (PT)
- remover
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 除去 chúqù
- Catalan
- treure
- Czech
- odebrat
- Danish
- fjerne
- Esperanto
- forigi
- Finnish
- poistaa
- Hebrew
- הסיר hesír
- Icelandic
- fjarlægja
- Lithuanian
- šalinti
- Norwegian
- fjerne
- Romanian
- scoate
- Yiddish
- אַרויסנעמען arojsnemen
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. removoir, remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move.
1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.— Deut. xix. 14.
When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.— Oliver Goldsmith
2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. “King Richard thus removed.” William Shakespeare
3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
☞ See the Note under Remove, intransitive verb
To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I can not taint with fear.— William Shakespeare
☞ The verb remove, in some of its application, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.
1. The act of removing; a removal.
This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.— John Milton
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.— Oliver Goldsmith
2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; — in the United States usually called a move.
It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.— Cardinal John Henry Newman
3. The state of being removed. John Locke
4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.— Joseph Addison
6. Farriery The act of resetting a horse's shoe. Jonathan Swift
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54