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remove is a verb and noun meaning "remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract". It carries 9 recorded senses.
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
“remove a threat”
“remove a wrapper”
“Remove the dirty dishes from the table”
“take the gun from your pocket”
“This machine withdraws heat from the environment”
dispose of
“Get rid of these old shoes!”
“The company got rid of all the dead wood”
shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
“He removed his children to the countryside”
“Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city”
“remove a case to another court”
degree of figurative distance or separation
“just one remove from madness”
“it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for remove come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.