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verb (used with object)
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to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
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to take off or shed (an article of clothing): to remove one's jacket.
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to move or shift to another place or position; transfer: She removed the painting to another wall.
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to put out; send away: to remove a tenant.
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EXPANDto dismiss or force from a position or office; discharge: They removed him for embezzling.
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to take away, withdraw, or eliminate: to remove the threat of danger.
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to get rid of; do away with; put an end to: to remove a stain; to remove the source of disease.
8.
COLLAPSEto kill; assassinate.
verb (used without object)
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to move from one place to another, especially to another locality or residence: We remove to Newport early in July.
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to go away; depart; disappear.
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Removes
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
noun
11.
the act of removing.
12.
a removal from one place, as of residence, to another.
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the distance by which one person, place, or thing is separated from another: to see something at a remove.
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a mental distance from the reality of something as a result of psychological detachment or lack of experience: to criticize something at a remove.
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EXPANDa degree of difference, as that due to descent, transmission, etc.: a folk survival, at many removes, of a druidic rite.
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a step or degree, as in a graded scale.
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COLLAPSEBritish. a promotion of a pupil to a higher class or division at school.
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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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