remove

verb removes · removing · removed · remove

1. transitive To delete.
2. transitive To move from one place to another, especially to take away. He removed the marbles from the bag.
3. formal, obsolete, transitive 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. transitive To murder.
5. transitive To dismiss a batsman.
6. transitive 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. archaic, intransitive 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. archaic, intransitive To change one's residence or place of business; to move. Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
9. To dismiss or discharge from office. The President removed many postmasters.

Similar: unstay, abate, bate, deduct, knock off, remove, subduct, subtract, take, take away, take off

noun removes

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.
2. historical A 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.
3. UK (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
4. A step or gradation (as in the phrase “at one remove”). A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
5. Distance in time or space; interval. 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,
6. broadly, figuratively Emotional distance or indifference.
7. broadly, figuratively State 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. dated The 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. The act of resetting a horse's shoe. His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails