remove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmuːv/
rhymes: -uːv
Forms: form: removes
form: removing
form: removed
form: removed
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form: glossary
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form: removest
form: removed
form: removedst
form: removes
form: removeth
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form: -
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form: removed
Etymology: From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.
Senses: glosses: To delete.
examples: text: He removed the marbles from the bag.
text: 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.
ref: 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Deuteronomye xix:[14], folio XXXV, recto:
text: Now that she was rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Dangerous Lady”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 36:
glosses: To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
To replace a dish within a course.
glosses: To murder.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To dismiss a batsman.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 524:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:
glosses: To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
examples: text: 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
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book V:
text: […] 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 without removing by the force thereof.
ref: 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, page 129:
glosses: To depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved.
examples: text: Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
ref: 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, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: 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.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
text: Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 20:
text: I am going to remove. / Where are you going to remove to? / I don't know yet. / When will you know?
ref: 1886, Lim Hiong Seng, Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: To change one's residence or place of business; to move.
examples: text: The President removed many postmasters.
glosses: To dismiss or discharge from office.
Synonyms: word: unstay
word: abate
word: bate
word: deduct
word: knock off
word: remove
word: subduct
word: subtract
word: take
word: take away
word: take off
Hypernyms: word: diminish
word: split
Hyponyms: word: kick out
word: unadd
word: undress
Derived terms: removable
removal
removalist
remove kebab
remover
Related terms: word: delete