Etimology
From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”). Displaced native Old English āfierran.
verb
remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)
(transitive) To delete.
(transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
(transitive) To murder.
(cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
(transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
(intransitive, now rare) To depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved.
(intransitive, archaic) To change one's residence or place of business; to move.
To dismiss or discharge from office.
Examples
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.
Now that she was rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.
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.
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.
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.
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?
About a year ago we removed to the above address, which we leased on a five-year lease with privilege of cancellation in one year.
The President removed many postmasters.
Related words
synonyms
unstay
antonyms
(antonym(s) of "move something from one place to another"): settle, place, add
noun
remove (plural removes)
The act of removing something.
(cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
(British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
Distance in time or space; interval.
(figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
(figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
Examples
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.
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.
A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
That we may understand the full extent of these relations, we must consider, that two objects are connected together in the imagination, not only when the one is immediately resembling, contiguous to, or the cause of the other, but also when there is interposed betwixt them a third object, which bears to both of them any of these relations. This may be carried on to a great length; though at the same time we may observe, that each remove considerably weakens the relation.
Thus though this degree of faith is but one remove from disbelief, 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.
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, yet how little doth that concerne Thee Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]
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.
It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails