remove
/ri'mu:v/
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Definition
Noun:
- A degree of separation or distance: A step or stage away from something, often used figuratively.
- A promotion to a higher class in a school (British, dated): The act of moving up to the next grade or level.
Verb:
- To take something away or off from a position: To physically move an object from its place.
- To eliminate or get rid of something: To cause something to no longer exist or be present, often an abstract thing like an obstacle, a stain, or a feeling.
- To dismiss from a position: To force someone to leave their job or office.
- To go away or depart: To leave a place.
- To change one's residence: To move to live in a different place.
- To kill or assassinate (formal/literary): To cause someone's death intentionally.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- His extravagant lifestyle is only one remove from financial ruin.
- In the old school system, passing the exam meant getting your remove.
Verb:
- Please remove your shoes before entering the house.
- The new policy aims to remove barriers to education.
- The corrupt official was removed from his post.
- He removed himself from the stressful situation.
- The family decided to remove to the countryside for a quieter life.
Advanced Usage
- "At one remove": Indirectly; not experiencing something directly.
- He observed the conflict at one remove, through news reports.
- "Many removes from": Very different or distant from.
- Modern city life is many removes from the simple village existence of his ancestors.
Variants and Related Words
- Removal (n): The act or process of removing something.
- The removal of the old furniture took all day.
- Removable (adj): Capable of being removed.
- The cover is removable for easy cleaning.
- Remover (n): A substance or tool used for removing something.
- nail polish remover; stain remover.
Synonyms
- Eliminate: To completely remove or get rid of.
- Extract: To take or pull out, especially with effort.
- Eradicate: To destroy or remove completely.
- Dismiss: To remove someone from a job.
- Relocate: To move to a new place.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Remove from: To take something/someone out of a place, group, or situation.
- The child was removed from the dangerous environment.
- Remove oneself from: To voluntarily leave or distance oneself from a situation.
- She wisely removed herself from the argument.
Related Idioms
- Remove the scales from someone's eyes: To cause someone to see the truth, to disillusion.
- The shocking revelation removed the scales from his eyes about his so-called friends.
- A far remove from: Something very different from.
- This peaceful village is a far remove from the bustling city I came from.
Noun
- degree of figurative distance or separation;
- just one remove from madness or it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy
Verb
- get rid of something abstract
- The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage
- God takes away your sins
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered
- go away or leave
- He absented himself
- 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
- cause to leave
- The teacher took the children out of the classroom
- dispose of
- Get rid of these old shoes!
- The company got rid of all the dead wood
- remove from a position or an office
- 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