remove
Use Remove in a sentence
verb (used with object)
1.
to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
2.
to take off or shed (an article of clothing): to remove one's jacket.
3.
to move or shift to another place or position; transfer: She removed the painting to another wall.
4.
to put out; send away: to remove a tenant.
5.
to dismiss or force from a position or office; discharge: They removed him for embezzling.
verb (used without object)
9.
to move from one place to another, especially to another locality or residence: We remove to Newport early in July.
10.
to go away; depart; disappear.
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noun
11.
the act of removing.
12.
a removal from one place, as of residence, to another.
13.
the distance by which one person, place, or thing is separated from another: to see something at a remove.
14.
a mental distance from the reality of something as a result of psychological detachment or lack of experience: to criticize something at a remove.
15.
a degree of difference, as that due to descent, transmission, etc.: a folk survival, at many removes, of a druidic rite.
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remove (rɪˈmuːv) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to take away and place elsewhere |
| 2. | to displace (someone) from office; dismiss |
| 3. | to do away with (a grievance, cause of anxiety, etc); abolish |
| 4. | to cause (dirt, stains, or anything unwanted) to disappear; get rid of |
| 5. | euphemistic to assassinate; kill |
| 6. | formal (intr) to change the location of one's home or place of business: the publishers have removed to Mayfair |
| —n | |
| 7. | the act of removing, esp (formal) a removal of one's residence or place of work |
| 8. | the degree of difference separating one person, thing, or condition from another: only one remove from madness |
| 9. | (Brit) (in certain schools) a class or form, esp one for children of about 14 years, designed to introduce them to the greater responsibilities of a more senior position in the school |
| 10. | (at a formal dinner, formerly) a dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains on the table |
| [C14: from Old French removoir, from Latin removēre; see | |
| re'movable | |
| —adj | |
| remova'bility | |
| —n | |
| re'movableness | |
| —n | |
| re'movably | |
| —adv | |
| re'mover | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
remove
c.1300, from O.Fr. remouvoir, from L. removere "move back or away," from re- "back, away" + movere "to move" (see move). The noun is first recorded 1553, "act of removing;" sense of "space or interval by which one thing is distant from another" is attested from 1628.
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Example sentences
By soaking up the butanol, the polymers remove the fuel from the water in which the bacteria circulate.
It may pay to remove the wood trim carefully to see if the narrow cavity is insulated.
Levin developed an algorithm that can remove this uniform blur to yield a clear image.
Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.
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