remove

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes

   They removed their children to the countryside.

2. 2
   noun

   degree of figurative distance or separation

   just one remove from madness or it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy

3. 3
   verb

   remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

   remove a threat

4. 4
   verb

   get rid of something abstract

   The death of your parent removed the last obstacle to our marriage.

5. 5
   verb

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

   He removed the marbles from the bag.

6. 6
   verb

   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.

7. 7
   verb

   To 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

8. 8
   verb

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

   Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.

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.