remove

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To delete.

2. 2

   To move from one place to another, especially to take away.

   • He removed the marbles from the bag.
   • Thou ſhalt not remoue thy neghbours marke which they of olde tyme haue ſett in thyne enheritaunce that thou enheretteſt in the londe which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enioye it.
   • His first indication of coming events was to remove the key from the outside to the inside of the door.
3. 3

   To murder.

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   1. 4

      To dismiss a batsman.

   2. 5

      To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

      • Eternall thraldom was to her more liefe, / Then loſſe of chaſtitie, or chaunge of loue : / Dye had ſhe rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any ſhould of falſeneſſe her reproue, / Or looſeneſſe, that ſhe lightly did remoue.
      • The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
   3. 6

      To depart, to leave

      To depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved.

      • […] you shall set your stakes at the brim of the water, each a yard apart, and so yedder them with your yedders, and so stake them with your strut stowers, that they may stand three tides without removing by the force thereof.
   4. 7

      To change one's residence or place of business

      To change one's residence or place of business; to move.

      • Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
      • 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.
      • Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
   5. 8

      To dismiss or discharge from office.

      • The President removed many postmasters.
   6. 9

      The act of removing something.

      • This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
      • And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
      • There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove.
   7. 10

      A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal

      A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.

      • A supper brings up the rear, not forgetting the introductory luncheon, almost equalling in removes the dinner.
      • An attempt at entrées and removes failed at the first dinner-party.
   8. 11

      (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last

   9. 12

      A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")

      • A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
      • Thus though this degree of faith is but one remove from disbelief, (denial) nevertheless as much probability is given to one side of the question as the other, and we stand, as it were, on an average between two.
   10. 13

       Distance in time or space

       Distance in time or space; interval.

   11. 14

       Emotional distance or indifference.

   12. 15

       State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.

   13. 16

       The transfer of one's home or business to another place

       The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.

       • It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
   14. 17

       The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

       • His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails

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• synonymunstay
• synonymabate
• synonymbate
• synonymdeduct
• synonymknock off
• synonymremove
• synonymsubduct
• synonymsubtract
• synonymtake
• synonymtake away
• synonymtake off
• antonymsettleantonym(s) of “move something from one place to another”
• antonymplaceantonym(s) of “move something from one place to another”
• antonymaddantonym(s) of “move something from one place to another”
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• neighborsplit
• neighborkick out
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