remove

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Verb 1.2.1 Antonyms 1.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.3 Translations 1.3 Noun 1.4 References

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːv

[edit] Verb

to remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)

1. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away

   He removed the marbles from the bag.

2. (transitive) To murder someone
3. (cricket),(transitive) To dismiss a batsman
4. (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.

[edit] Antonyms

• add

[edit] Derived terms

• removable
• removal
• remover

[edit] Translations

[edit] Noun

remove (plural removes)

1. The act of removing something, especially removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course
2. A dish thus replaced, or the replacement
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")

[edit] References

• OED 2nd edition 1989