remove

Verb

1. 1

   To delete.

2. 2

   To move from one place to another, especially to take away.

   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.

3. 3

   veraltetTo move from one place to another, especially to take away. To replace a dish within a course.

   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.

4. 4

   To murder.

5. 5

   To dismiss a batsman.

6. 6

   To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

   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.

7. 7

   altertümlichTo depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved.

   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.

8. 8

   altertümlichTo change one's residence or place of business; to move.

   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?

9. 9

   To dismiss or discharge from office.

   The President removed many postmasters.

Substantiv

1. 1

   The act of removing something.

   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.

2. 2

   historischA dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.

   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.

3. 3

   (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.

4. 4

   A step or gradation (as in the phrase “at one remove”).

   A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.

   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.

5. 5

   Distance in time or space; interval.

6. 6

   übertragenEmotional distance or indifference.

7. 7

   übertragenState of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.

   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.

8. 8

   veraltendThe transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.

   It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.

9. 9

   The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

   His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails

Formen

Plural

removes

Präteritum

removed

Partizip II

removed

Partizip I

removing

3. Person Singular

removes