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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

]

—Related forms

re·mov·ed·ly

[ri-moo-vid-lee, -moovd-] Pronunciation Key, adverb

re·mov·ed·ness, noun

—Synonyms 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 withdrawn, abstracted; isolated, solitary, apart.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

]

—Synonyms 1. dislodge. 3. displace, transport. 8. murder.

—Antonyms 1. leave. 9. remain.

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re·move   (rĭ-mōōv') Pronunciation Key
v.   re·moved, re·mov·ing, re·moves

v.   tr.

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

v. intr.

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

The act of removing; removal.
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.

Distant in space, time, or nature; remote.
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]