remove
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cooking
cricket
food
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Proto-Italic *wremoweō
Latin removeō
Old French removoir
Anglo-Norman removerbor.
Middle English removen
English remove
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.
Base: move
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: removes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: removing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: removed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: removed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: remove
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: remove
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: removed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: remove
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: removest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: removed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: removedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: removes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: removeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: removed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: remove
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: removed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: remove
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: removed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: remove
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: removing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: removed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: removes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To delete.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He removed the marbles from the bag.
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.
His first indication of coming events was to remove the key from the outside to the inside of the door.
Now that she was rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.
gloss: To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
pos: verb
tags: formal
obsolete
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To murder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dismiss a batsman.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: 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
[…] 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.
gloss: To change one's residence or place of business; to move.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
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.
Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
I am going to remove. / Where are you going to remove to? / I don't know yet. / When will you know?
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.
gloss: To dismiss or discharge from office.
pos: verb
examples: The President removed many postmasters.
gloss: The act of removing something.
pos: noun
examples: This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove.
gloss: A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: A supper brings up the rear, not forgetting the introductory luncheon, almost equalling in removes the dinner.
An attempt at entrées and removes failed at the first dinner-party.
gloss: (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
pos: noun
examples: A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
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 each remove conſiderably vveakens the relation.
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.
In his unfortunate absence at this far remove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever.
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 many removes 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.
gloss: Distance in time or space; interval.
pos: noun
examples: 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 more Removes 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; […]
gloss: Emotional distance or indifference.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
gloss: State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
gloss: The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
pos: noun
examples: His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails
Synonyms: unstay
abate
bate
deduct
knock off
remove
subduct
subtract
take
take away
take off
Antonyms: settle
place
add
Related words: delete
Derived words: boyremove
removability
removable
removal
removalist
removeable
remove kebab
remover
a far remove
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: verwyder
lang: Albanian
word: fshi
lang: Albanian
word: hiq
lang: Arabic
word: نَقَلَ
roman: naqala
lang: Arabic
word: أَزَالَ
roman: ʔazāla
lang: Arabic
word: أَخْرَجَ
roman: ʔaḵraja
lang: Arabic
word: جَذَبَ
roman: jaḏaba
lang: Armenian
word: հանել
roman: hanel
lang: Aromanian
word: scot
lang: Basque
word: kendu
lang: Central Bikol
word: hali
lang: Central Bikol
word: tangkas
lang: Bulgarian
word: отстранявам
roman: otstranjavam
lang: Catalan
word: treure
lang: Catalan
word: llevar
lang: Catalan
word: retirar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 除去
roman: chúqù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 消除
roman: xiāochú
lang: Czech
word: odebrat
lang: Czech
word: odstranit
lang: Dalmatian
word: scutro
lang: Danish
word: fjerne
lang: Dutch
word: verwijderen
lang: Dutch
word: weghalen
lang: Esperanto
word: forigi
lang: Esperanto
word: forpreni
lang: Finnish
word: ottaa
lang: Finnish
word: poistaa
lang: Finnish
word: siirtää
lang: French
word: enlever
lang: French
word: ôter
lang: Friulian
word: rimovi
lang: Friulian
word: eliminâ
lang: Friulian
word: jevâ
lang: Galician
word: quitar
lang: Galician
word: extraer
lang: German
word: entfernen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌿𐍃𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽
roman: usniman
lang: Greek
word: βγάζω
roman: vgázo
lang: Hebrew
word: הסיר
roman: hesír
lang: Hindi
word: हटाना
roman: haṭānā
lang: Hindi
word: अलग करना
roman: alag karnā
lang: Hungarian
word: eltávolít
lang: Hungarian
word: elmozdít
lang: Hungarian
word: elvesz
lang: Hungarian
word: kivesz
lang: Hungarian
word: levesz
lang: Hungarian
word: elvisz
lang: Hungarian
word: leszed
lang: Irish
word: scaoil
lang: Italian
word: rimuovere
lang: Italian
word: asportare
lang: Italian
word: levare
lang: Italian
word: togliere
lang: Italian
word: portare via
lang: Italian
word: estirpare
lang: Italian
word: eradicare
lang: Italian
word: allontanare
lang: Japanese
word: 移す
roman: utsusu
lang: Japanese
word: 除く
roman: nozoku
lang: Japanese
word: 取り去る
roman: torisaru
lang: Japanese
word: 退ける
roman: dokeru, nokeru
lang: Kazakh
word: аластау
roman: alastau
lang: Khmer
word: យកចេញ
roman: yɔɔ kɑɑ cəɲ, yɔɔk cəɲ
lang: Korean
word: 치우다
roman: chiuda
lang: Central Kurdish
word: جولاندن
roman: culandin
lang: Central Kurdish
word: لابردن
roman: labirdin
lang: Latin
word: removeō
lang: Latin
word: auferō
lang: Latin
word: adimō
lang: Latvian
word: noņemt
lang: Latvian
word: aizvākt
lang: Lingala
word: botola
lang: Lithuanian
word: šalinti
lang: Maltese
word: neħħa
lang: Māori
word: karokaro
lang: Māori
word: tauwehe
lang: Marshallese
word: eakto
lang: Marshallese
word: bōk
lang: Norwegian
word: fjerne
lang: Norwegian
word: ta bort
lang: Occitan
word: levar
lang: Occitan
word: traire
lang: Old English
word: āfierran
lang: Persian
word: برداشتن
roman: bardâštan
lang: Polabian
word: afstöŕăl
lang: Polish
word: usuwać
lang: Polish
word: usunąć
lang: Polish
word: odejmować
lang: Polish
word: odjąć
lang: Portuguese
word: remover
lang: Portuguese
word: tirar
lang: Portuguese
word: retirar
lang: Quechua
word: hurquy
lang: Romanian
word: scoate
lang: Romanian
word: îndepărta
lang: Romansh
word: allontanar
lang: Russian
word: устраня́ть
roman: ustranjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: убира́ть
roman: ubirátʹ
lang: Sanskrit
word: जिहर्ति
roman: jiharti
lang: Sanskrit
word: हरति
roman: harati
lang: Sardinian
word: iscotare
lang: Sardinian
word: istejare
lang: Sardinian
word: istesare
lang: Sardinian
word: trancire
lang: Sicilian
word: livari
lang: Slovene
word: odstraniti
lang: Slovene
word: odstranjevati
lang: Spanish
word: quitar
lang: Spanish
word: remover
lang: Spanish
word: detraer
lang: Swedish
word: avlägsna
lang: Swedish
word: ta bort
lang: Tagalog
word: alisin
lang: Tagalog
word: tanggalin
lang: Telugu
word: తీయు
roman: tīyu
lang: Telugu
word: తొలగించు
roman: tolagiñcu
lang: Thai
word: ลบ
roman: lóp
lang: Thai
word: ถอด
roman: tɔ̀ɔt
lang: Tocharian B
word: rutk-
lang: Turkish
word: kaldırmak
lang: Turkish
word: çıkarmak
lang: Turkish
word: uzaklaştırmak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: گوتورمك
roman: götürmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: відноси́ти
roman: vidnosýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: віднести́
roman: vidnestý
lang: Ukrainian
word: усува́ти
roman: usuváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: усу́нути
roman: usúnuty
lang: Vietnamese
word: chuyển đi
lang: Vietnamese
word: dọn đi
lang: Walloon
word: rissaetchî
lang: Zazaki
word: wedaren