Definition of "remove"

remove

/ɹɪˈmuːv/

verb
third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed
1. (transitive) To delete.
2. (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
  Quotations
  Thou ſhalt not remoue thy neghbours marke which they of olde tyme haue ſett in thyne enheritaunce that thou enheretteſt in the londe which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enioye it.
  1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., chapter 19, in [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], Deuteronomye xix:, folio XXXV, recto
  Now that she was rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.
  1963, Margery Allingham, “Dangerous Lady”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, page 36
  1. (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
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    But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw […] that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
    1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
3. (transitive) To murder.
4. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
5. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
  Quotations
  Eternall thraldom was to her more liefe, / Then loſſe of chaſtitie, or chaunge of loue : / Dye had ſhe rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any ſhould of falſeneſſe her reproue, / Or looſeneſſe, that ſhe lightly did remoue.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 524
  The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
  2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10
6. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
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  THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book V
7. (intransitive, archaic) To change one's residence or place of business; to move.
  Quotations
  Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
  c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iii]
  Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.
  1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719
  Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
  1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 20
  I am going to remove. / Where are you going to remove to? / I don't know yet. / When will you know?
  1886, Lim Hiong Seng, Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press
  About a year ago we removed to the above address, which we leased on a five-year lease with privilege of cancellation in one year.
  1925, W. K. & Co., “How to Avoid a Controversy Over Fixtures Between Landlord and Tenant”, in American Independent Baker: Official Organ of the Retail Bakers, volume 23, page 20
8. To dismiss or discharge from office.
noun
plural removes
1. The act of removing something.
  Quotations
  This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
  , [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson]
  And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
  1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […]
  There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove.
  1761, John Mordant, The Complete Steward
2. (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
  Quotations
  A supper brings up the rear, not forgetting the introductory luncheon, almost equalling in removes the dinner.
  1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 16
  An attempt at entrées and removes failed at the first dinner-party.
  1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 289
3. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
4. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
  Quotations
  A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
  1716 January 3 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 1. Friday, December 23. 1715.”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721
  That we may understand the full extent of these relations, we must consider, that two objects are connected together in the imagination, not only when the one is immediately resembling, contiguous to, or the cause of the other, but also when there is interposed betwixt them a third object, which bears to both of them any of these relations. This may be carried on to a great length; though at the same time we may observe, that each remove considerably weakens the relation.
  1739, [David Hume], A Treatise of Human Nature: […], London: […] John Noon, […]; republished as L[ewis] A[mherst] Selby-Bigge, editor, A Treatise of Human Nature […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, 1896, book I (Of the Understanding)
  Thus though this degree of faith is but one remove from disbelief, (denial) nevertheless as much probability is given to one side of the question as the other, and we stand, as it were, on an average between two.
  1822, Paul Brown, “Of the Degrees of Faith, according to probability, and force of impression”, in A Disquisition on Faith, Washington, D.C.: […] [F]or the Author[, b]y Andrew Way, page 24
  In his unfortunate absence at this far remove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever.
  2007, James D. McCallister, King's Highway, page 162
5. Distance in time or space; interval.
6. (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
7. (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
  Quotations
  The fact that one structure applied in the rainy season and another in the dry allowed Nambikwara chiefs to view their own social arrangements at one remove: to see them as not simply “given”, in the natural order of things, but as something at least partially open to human intervention.
  2021 October 19, David Graeber, David Wengrowr, “Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past”, in The Guardian, UK
8. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
  Quotations
  It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
  1855, John Henry Newman, Callista
9. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
  Quotations
  His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails
  1731 (date written, published 1745), Jonathan Swift, “Directions to Servants”, in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XVI, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801

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