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Remove

verb

(past & past part. removed; pres. part. removing)

1.

Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract. Synonyms: take, take away, withdraw. "Remove a wrapper" , "Remove the dirty dishes from the table" , "Take the gun from your pocket" , "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

2.

Remove from a position or an office.

3.

Dispose of. Synonym: get rid of. "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

4.

Cause to leave. Synonyms: move out, take out.

5.

Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes. Synonym: transfer. "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city" , "Remove a case to another court"

6.

Go away or leave. Synonym: absent.

7.

Kill intentionally and with premeditation. Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, slay.

8.

Get rid of something abstract. Synonym: take away. "God takes away your sins"

noun

1.

Degree of figurative distance or separation. "It imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy"

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"Remove" Quotes from Famous Books

... springs on the borders of the great valley within one day's journey to the N. and S. the Bedouins are obliged to resort to them. The wells are full of leeches, some of which fixed themselves to the palates of several of our camels whilst drinking, and it was with difficulty that we could remove them. The name of Arindela, an ancient town of Palaestina Tertia, bears great resemblance to that ...

— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt

... seen that Ṣubḥ-i-Ezel takes credit (1) for carrying out the Bāb's last wishes, and (2) leaving the bodies as they were. To remove the relics to another place was tantamount to stealing. It was Baha-'ullah who ordered this removal for a good reason, viz., that the cemetery, in which the niche containing the coffin was, seemed so ruinous ...

— The Reconciliation of Races and Religions • Thomas Kelly Cheyne

... construction of this work recourse has been had to the so- called original sources of information. In these, the diversity of their incomplete statements about different countries and epochs has offered many obstacles. In presenting my own deductions and inferences, it is with a desire to remove any impressions as to this volume being a mere compilation. "Facts are the data of all just reasoning, and the elements of all real knowledge. It follows that he is a wise man who possesses the greatest store of facts on a given subject. A book, therefore, which assembles facts ...

— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

... prettiest, and by tight lacing (though no tighter than theirs) I make my waist an ell smaller than either. In addition, I have a nabob of gray tabby silk trimmed with the same fur, which has such a sweet and modish air that I could cry at having to remove it but for what it would conceal. I intend to ask Peggy if 't would be citified and a la mode to keep it on for a little while after entering the box by the plea that the playhouse is cold. The high mode now is to dress the hair enormous ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... August, 1843, (since the publication of this work,) a brief but most important statute (6 and 7 Vict. c. 85) was enacted, "for improving the Law of Evidence"—the chief object of which was, to remove all such difficulties as that which formed the subject of Mr. Parkinson's inquiries. Witnesses are now no longer "incompetent" to give evidence by reason of crime or of any interest which they may have in, or in respect of, the subject-matter of ...

— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren

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