remove

1. 1

   To delete.transitive

2. 2

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

   • He removed the marbles from the bag.
3. 3

   To move from one place to another, especially to take away.; To replace a dish within a course.formalobsoletetransitive

   • But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
4. 4

   To murder.transitive

5. 5

   To dismiss a batsman.transitive

6. 6

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

   • 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.
7. 7

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

   • […] 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.
8. 8

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

   • 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.
9. 9

   To dismiss or discharge (someone) from an official position or office.transitive

   • The President removed many postmasters.

syn. unstay · abate · bate · deduct · knock off · remove · subduct · subtract · take · take away · take off

ant. settle · place · add

1. 1

   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.
2. 2

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

   • 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.
3. 3

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

4. 4

   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.
5. 5

   Distance in time or space; interval.

   • How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed:
6. 6

   Emotional distance or indifference.broadlyfiguratively

7. 7

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

   • The fact that one structure applied in the rainy season and another in the dry allowed Nambikwara chiefs to view their own social arrangements at one remove: to see them as not simply “given”, in the natural order of things, but as somethin
8. 8

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

   • It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
9. 9

   The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

   • His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails