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re⋅moved

  [ri-moovd]
Use removed in a Sentence
–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 + -ed 2

Related forms:
re⋅mov⋅ed⋅ly  [ri-moo-vid-lee, -moovd-] , adverb
re⋅mov⋅ed⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. withdrawn, abstracted; isolated, solitary, apart.

re⋅move

  [ri-moov] 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 removēre. See re-, move

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

Antonyms:
1. leave. 9. remain.
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re·move   (rĭ-mōōv')   
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.
re·moved   (rĭ-mōōvd')   
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : removed
Spanish: gallinilla de Bantam,
German: das Zwerghuhn;Zwerghuhn-…,
Japanese: ちゃぼ
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