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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishremoven, fromAnglo-Normanremover,removeir, fromOld Frenchremouvoir, fromLatinremovēre, fromre- +movēre(“to move”), equivalent tore- +‎move. Displaced nativeOld Englishāfierran.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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remove (third-person singular simple presentremoves,present participleremoving,simple past and past participleremoved)

  1. (transitive) Todelete.
  2. (transitive) Tomove from one place to another, especially totake away.
    Heremoved the marbles from the bag.
    1. (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
      • 1959,Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, inThe Unknown Ajax:
        But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had beenremoved with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
  3. (transitive) Tomurder.
  4. (cricket, transitive) Todismiss a batsman.
  5. (transitive) Todiscard,set aside, especially somethingabstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
  6. (intransitive, now rare) Todepart, toleave; to move oneself or be moved.
    • 1485,Sir Thomas Malory, “vj”, inLe Morte Darthur, book V:
      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 heremeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1855, Francis Kildale Robinson,A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the Neighbourhood. With Examples of Their Colloquial Use, and Allusions to Local Customs and Trditions, page129:
      […] you shall set your stakes at the brim of the water, each a yard apart, and so yedder them with your yedders, and so stake them with your strut stowers, that they may stand three tides withoutremoving by the force thereof.
  7. (intransitive, archaic) To change one'sresidence or place of business; tomove.
    • c.1606 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene iii]:
      Till Birnam woodremove to Dunsinane.
    • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe],The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […],→OCLC:
      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 toremove from the place where I lived.
    • 1834,David Crockett,A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published1987, page20:
      Shortly after this, my fatherremoved, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
    • 1886, Lim Hiong Seng,Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press:
      I am going toremove. / Where are you going toremove to? / I don't know yet. / When will you know?
    • 1925,W. K. & Co., “How to Avoid a Controversy Over Fixtures Between Landlord and Tenant”, inAmerican Independent Baker: Official Organ of the Retail Bakers, volume23, page20:
      About a year ago weremoved to the above address, which we leased on a five-year lease with privilege of cancellation in one year.
  8. Todismiss ordischarge fromoffice.
    The Presidentremoved many postmasters.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofremove
infinitive(to)remove
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularremoveremoved
2nd-personsingularremove,removest†removed,removedst†
3rd-personsingularremoves,removeth†removed
pluralremove
subjunctiveremoveremoved
imperativeremove—
participlesremovingremoved

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of“move something from one place to another”):settle,place,add

Derived terms

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Translations

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to delete—seedelete
to take away
to murder someone
to discard, set aside
to change one's residence
to dismiss or discharge from office—seedismiss,‎discharge
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Noun

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remove (pluralremoves)

  1. The act ofremoving something.
  2. (cooking, now chiefly historical) Adish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a newcourse.
    • 1796,Mary Wollstonecraft,Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published2009, page16:
      A supper brings up the rear, not forgetting the introductory luncheon, almost equalling inremoves the dinner.
    • 1842,[Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, inWidows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London:Richard Bentley, […],→OCLC,page289:
      An attempt atentrées andremoves failed at the first dinner-party.
  3. (British)(at some public schools) Adivision of theschool, especially theform prior to last
  4. Astep orgradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
    • 1716 January 3 (Gregorian calendar),Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 1. Friday, December 23. 1715.”, inThe Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published1721,→OCLC:
      A freeholder is but oneremove from a legislator.
    • 1739, [David Hume], “Of the Connexion or Association of Ideas”, inA Treatise of Human Nature: […], book I (Of the Understanding), London: […] John Noon, […],→OCLC, part I (Of Ideas; Their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction, &c.),page28:
      That vve may underſtand the full extent of theſe relations, vve must conſider, that tvvo objects are connected together in the imagination, not only vvhen the one is immediately reſembling, contiguous to, or the cauſe of the other, but alſo vvhen there is interpoſed betwixt them a third object, vvhich bears to both of them any of theſe relations. This may be carried on to a great length; tho' at the ſame time vve may obſerve, that eachremove conſiderably vveakens the relation.
    • 1822, Paul Brown, “Of the Degrees of Faith, according to probability, and force of impression”, inA Disquisition on Faith, Washington, D.C.: […] [F]or the Author[, b]y Andrew Way, page24:
      Thus though this degree of faith is but oneremove 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.
    • 2007, James D. McCallister,King's Highway,page162:
      In his unfortunate absence at this farremove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever.
    • 2022 September 9, HarryBlank, “The Mausoleum at Ipperwash”, inSCP Foundation‎[1], archived fromthe original on27 May 2024:
      They were standing in the foreshortened airlock approach now, having just left a gaggle of nervous techs and agents behind the sealed bulkhead. Nobody knew what they were about to unleash, so it was best to keep it as manyremoves from the rest of the Site as was possible. When they opened the vault door, the filtration systems would whir to life and start sifting the air for esoteric elements. Ibanez suspected it would be months before the approach was considered clean, the doors retracted and active air and pedestrian circulation restored.
  5. Distance intime orspace;interval.
    • 1654, Richard Whitlock,Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
      How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it moreRemoves off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine;[…]
  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.
    • 2021 October 19, David Graeber, David Wengrowr, “Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past”, inThe Guardian, UK:
      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 oneremove: to see them as not simply “given”, in the natural order of things, but as something at least partially open to human intervention.
  8. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; amove.
  9. The act of resetting ahorse'sshoe.
    • 1731 (date written; published1745),[Jonathan] Swift,Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […],→OCLC:
      His horse wanted tworemoves; your horse wanted nails

Derived terms

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References

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Latin

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Verb

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removē

  1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofremoveō

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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remove

  1. inflection ofremover:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative
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