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6 dictionary results for: removed
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re·moved       [ri-moovd] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.remote; separate; not connected with; distinct from.
2.distant by a given number of degrees of descent or kinship: A first cousin once removed is the child of one's first cousin. The grandchildren of one's first cousin are one's first cousins twice removed.

[Origin: 1540–50; remove + -ed2]

re·mov·ed·ly       [ri-moo-vid-lee, -moovd-] Pronunciation Key, adverb
re·mov·ed·ness, noun

1. withdrawn, abstracted; isolated, solitary, apart.
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re·move       [ri-moov] Pronunciation Key verb, -moved, -mov·ing, noun
–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.
6.to take away, withdraw, or eliminate: to remove the threat of danger.
7.to get rid of; do away with; put an end to: to remove a stain; to remove the source of disease.
8.to kill; assassinate.
–verb (used without object)
9.to move from one place to another, esp. to another locality or residence: We remove to Newport early in July.
10.to go away; depart; disappear.
–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.
16.a step or degree, as in a graded scale.
17.British. a promotion of a pupil to a higher class or division at school.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME removen (v.) < OF remouvoir < L removére. See re-, move]

1. dislodge. 3. displace, transport. 8. murder.
1. leave. 9. remain.
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re·move       (rĭ-mōōv')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   re·moved, re·mov·ing, re·moves

v.   tr.
  1. To move from a place or position occupied: removed the cups from the table.
  2. To transfer or convey from one place to another: removed the family to Texas.
  3. To take off: removed my boots.
  4. To take away; withdraw: removed the candidate's name from consideration.
  5. To do away with; eliminate: remove a stain.
  6. To dismiss from an office or position.

v.   intr.
  1. To change one's place of residence or business; move: "In 1751, I removed from the country to the town" (David Hume).
  2. To go away; depart.
  3. To be removable: paint that removes with water.

n.  
  1. The act of removing; removal.
  2. Distance or degree of separation or remoteness: "to spill, though at a safe remove, the blood of brave men" (Anthony Burgess).


[Middle English removen, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre : re-, re- + movēre, to move; see move.]

re·mov'er n.
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re·moved       (rĭ-mōōvd')  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Distant in space, time, or nature; remote.
  2. Separated in relationship by a given degree of descent: A first cousin's child is one's first cousin once removed.

re·mov'ed·ly (-mōō'vĭd-lē) adv., re·mov'ed·ness n.
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removed

adjective
1. separated in relationship by a given degree of descent; "a cousin once removed" 
2. separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future" [syn: distant

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Removed

Re*moved"\ (r?-m??vd"), a. 1. Changed in place.

2. Dismissed from office.

3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." --Shak.

4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r?-m??v"?d-n?s), n. --Shak.

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