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.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
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.
NOUN:
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).
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English removen, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removre : re-, re- + movre, to move; see move.
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