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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REMOVE, v.t. [L. removeo; re and moveo, to move.]
1. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deutoronomy 19.
2. To displace from an office.
3. To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint.
Remove sorrow from thine heart. Ecclesiastes 11.
4. To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.
5. To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.
REMOVE, v.i.
1. To change place in any manner.
2. To go from one place to another.
3. To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.
REMOVE, n.
1. Change of place.
2. Translation of one to the place of another.
3. State of being removed.
4. Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
5. Departure; a going away.
6. The act of changing place; removal.
7. A step in any scale of gradation.
A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
8. Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove.
9. The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.
10. A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.
11. Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: degree of figurative distance or separation; "just one remove from madness" or "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy"; v
1: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" [syn: remove, take, take away, withdraw]
2: remove from a position or an office
3: dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood" [syn: get rid of, remove]
4: cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the classroom" [syn: take out, move out, remove]
5: shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court" [syn: remove, transfer]
6: go away or leave; "He absented himself" [syn: absent, remove]
7: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove]
8: get rid of something abstract; "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes away your sins" [syn: remove, take away]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (removed; removing) Etymology: Middle English remeven, removen, from Anglo-French remuver, removeir, from Latin remov?re, from re- + mov?re to move Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to change the location, position, station, or residence of <remove soldiers to the front> b. to transfer (a legal proceeding) from one court to another 2. to move by lifting, pushing aside, or taking away or off <remove your hat> 3. to dismiss from office 4. to get rid of ; eliminate <remove a tumor surgically> intransitive verb 1. to change location, station, or residence <removing from the city to the suburbs> 2. to go away 3. to be capable of being removed • removability noun • removable also removeable adjective • removableness noun • removably adverb • remover noun II. noun Date: 1553 1. removal; specifically move 2c 2. a. a distance or interval separating one person or thing from another b. a degree or stage of separation

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 tr. take off or away from the place or position occupied (remove the top carefully). 2 tr. a move or take to another place; change the situation of (will you remove the tea things?). b get rid of; eliminate (will remove all doubts). 3 tr. cause to be no longer present or available; take away (all privileges were removed). 4 tr. (often foll. by from) dismiss (from office). 5 tr. colloq. kill, assassinate. 6 tr. (in passive; foll. by from) distant or remote in condition (the country is not far removed from anarchy). 7 tr. (as removed adj.) (esp. of cousins) separated by a specified number of steps of descent (a first cousin twice removed = a grandchild of a first cousin). 8 formal a intr. (usu. foll. by from, to) change one's home or place of residence. b tr. conduct the removal of. --n. 1 a degree or remoteness; a distance. 2 a stage in a gradation; a degree (is several removes from what I expected). 3 Brit. a form or division in some schools. Derivatives: removable adj. removability n. remover n. (esp. in sense 8b of v.). Etymology: ME f. OF removeir f. L removere remot- (as RE-, movere move)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Remove Re*move", n. 1. The act of removing; a removal. This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship. --Milton. And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. --Goldsmith. 2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move. It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. --J. H. Newman. 3. The state of being removed. --Locke. 4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else. 5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. --Addison. 6. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. --Swift.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Remove Re*move" (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-m??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Removing.] [OF. removoir, remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move.] 1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. --Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed. --Goldsmith. 2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. ``King Richard thus removed.'' --Shak. 3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters. Note: See the Note under Remove, v. i.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Remove Re*move" (r?-m??v"), v. i. To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another. Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I can not taint with fear. --Shak. Note: The verb remove, in some of its application, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(removes, removing, removed) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you remove something from a place, you take it away. (WRITTEN) As soon as the cake is done, remove it from the oven... He went to the refrigerator and removed a bottle of wine. VERB: V n from n, V n 2. If you remove clothing, you take it off. (WRITTEN) He removed his jacket. VERB: V n 3. If you remove a stain from something, you make the stain disappear by treating it with a chemical or by washing it. This treatment removes the most stubborn stains... VERB: V n 4. If people remove someone from power or from something such as a committee, they stop them being in power or being a member of the committee. The student senate voted to remove Fuller from office... VERB: V n from n 5. If you remove an obstacle, a restriction, or a problem, you get rid of it. The agreement removes the last serious obstacle to the signing of the arms treaty... VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Displace, dislodge, transfer, transport, transplant, carry. 2. Withdraw, extract, abstract, take out. 3. Banish, destroy, abate, suppress, take away, put an end to, do away with, make a clean sweep of. 4. Separate, withdraw, take away, carry off. 5. Dismiss, eject, oust, put out, turn out. II. v. n. Move, change place. III. n. 1. Change of place. See removal. 2. Interval, distance, separation, stage, step. 3. Step (in a scale of gradation).

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