remove
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English remeven, removen, from Anglo-Norman remuver, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“‘to move’”)
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɪˈmuːv/
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- Rhymes: -uːv
[edit] Verb
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to remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)
- (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
- He removed the marbles from the bag.
- (transitive) To murder someone.
- (cricket),(transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
- And loke that ye ryde streyte unto Sir Lucius and sey I bydde hym in haste to remeve oute of my londys.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
- (intransitive) To change one's residence.
- 1719 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- 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.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 20:
- Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
- 1719 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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to take away
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[edit] Noun
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remove (plural removes)
- The act of removing something, especially removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course
- A dish thus replaced, or the replacement
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
[edit] References
- OED 2nd edition 1989