remove
IPA: rimˈuv
noun
- The act of removing something.
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (Britain) (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")
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
verb
- (transitive) To delete.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
- (transitive) To murder.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- (intransitive, now rare) To depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved.
- (intransitive, archaic) To change one's residence or place of business; to move.
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
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Examples of "remove" in Sentences
- The rock is to be removed.
- I removed the redundancy to remove the confusion.
- The fact that Congress removed the earmark was removed.
- He goes to the park, removes the leash and the pup takes off.
- Time to brush off the cobewbs and remove the ivy from the walls.
- At one point, every second lamppost was removed to remove weight.
- The bridge was removed in 1954 and the embankment was removed in 1959.
- The crystals rub off the top layer of the skin, helping remove wrinkles.
- He removes the string and, to his dismay, the wrapping paper falls off the box.
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