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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



... former sin and refreshed the spirit of the dying. Through the priest alone might marriage be sanctified; and when the bonds were once legally contracted they might never be sundered. If evil desire, which baptism lessened but did not remove, led the Christian into deadly sin, as it constantly did, the Church, through the sacrament of penance, reconciled him once more with God and saved him from the jaws of hell. For the priest, through the sacrament of ordination, received the most exalted prerogative of forgiving sins. He enjoyed, ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

... the same old Teddy. I can imagine what a pleasant time Snowden has had with Tucker on board the same car with him. There is little more to say. I have been disappointed in Snowden for sometime. I had about decided to remove him before you joined the car. I wished, however, to send you boys on, knowing full well that you would soon find out whether there was any mistake in my estimate of the man. Then, too, I had other reasons for sending ...
— The Circus Boys on the Plains • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... Naturaliste in July 1801, but Captain Hamelin, the commander, would not permit it to be disturbed. On the contrary, he set up a new post with the plate affixed to it, and expressed the opinion that to remove an interesting memorial that for over a century had been spared by nature and by man, would be to commit a kind of sacrilege.* (* "Il eut pense commettre un sacrilege en gardant a son bord cette plaque respectee pendant pres de deux siecles par la nature ...
— Terre Napoleon - A history of French explorations and projects in Australia • Ernest Scott

... military advantage. On the other hand, the Embargo, as it was called, hit the Americans themselves very hard indeed. So great was the outcry of the commercial classes, that the President was compelled to retrace his steps and remove the interdict. The problem he handed ...
— A History of the United States • Cecil Chesterton

... position for the first time revealed themselves to me. If Philippa remained insane, how was I to remove her from the scene of her—alas! of her crime? If Philippa had become sane, her position under my roof was extremely compromising. Again, if she were insane, a jury might acquit her, when the snow melted and ...
— Much Darker Days • Andrew Lang (AKA A. Huge Longway)


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