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'sjacket.
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.
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)
verb (used without object)
9.
to move from one place to another, especially to anotherlocality or residence: We remove to Newport early in July.
10.
noun
to go away; depart; disappear.
noun
11.
the act of removing.
13.
the distance by which one person, place, or thing isseparated from another: to see something at a remove.
14.
a mental distance from the reality of something as a resultof psychological detachment or lack of experience: tocriticize 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 divisionat school.
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