remove

See also: remové

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English remeven, removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈmuːv/
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  • Rhymes: -uːv

VerbEdit

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

  1. (transitive) To delete.
  2. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
    He removed the marbles from the bag.
    • 1560, Geneva Bible, The Geneva Bible#page/n182 Deuteronomy 19:14:
      Thou ſhalt not remoue thy neighbours marke, which thei of olde time haue ſet in thine inheritance, that thou ſhalt inherit the lãd, which the Lord thy God giueth the to poſſeſſe it.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
    1. (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
      • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
        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.
  3. (transitive) To murder.
  4. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
  5. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
  6. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vj, in Le Morte Darthur, book V:
      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
  7. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
    • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:
      Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
    • 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.
    • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p.20:
      Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
    • 1886, Lim, Hiong Seng, Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press:
      I am going to remove. / Where are you going to remove to? / I don't know yet. / When will you know?
  8. To dismiss or discharge from office.
    The President removed many postmasters.
ConjugationEdit
conjugation of remove
infinitive remove
present participle removing
past participle removed
simple progressive perfect perfect progressive
present I remove we remove I am removing we are removing I have removed we have removed I have been removing we have been removing
you remove you remove you are removing you are removing you have removed you have removed you have been removing you have been removing
he removes they remove he is removing they are removing he has removed they have removed he has been removing they have been removing
past I removed we removed I was removing we were removing I had removed we had removed I had been removing we had been removing
you removed you removed you were removing you were removing you had removed you had removed you had been removing you had been removing
he removed they removed he was removing they were removing he had removed they had removed he had been removing they had been removing
future I will remove we will remove I will be removing we will be removing I will have removed we will have removed I will have been removing we will have been removing
you will remove you will remove you will be removing you will be removing you will have removed you will have removed you will have been removing you will have been removing
he will remove they will remove he will be removing they will be removing he will have removed they will have removed he will have been removing they will have been removing
conditional I would remove we would remove I would be removing we would be removing I would have removed we would have removed I would have been removing we would have been removing
you would remove you would remove you would be removing you would be removing you would have removed you would have removed you would have been removing you would have been removing
he would remove they would remove he would be removing they would be removing he would have removed they would have removed he would have been removing they would have been removing
imperative remove

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TranslationsEdit

to remove — see delete

NounEdit

remove (plural removes)

  1. The act of removing something.
    • [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: Printed for Thomas Underhill and/or for Thomas Johnson], OCLC 946735316:
      This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
    • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
      And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
    • 1761, John Mordant, The Complete Steward:
      There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove.
  2. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
  3. (Britain) (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")
    • December 23, 1715, Joseph Addison, The Freeloader No. 1
    • 1970, Yuri Rytkheu, Сон в начале тумана [A Dream in Polar Fog]:
      Toko returned to the men, sitting at a remove.
    • 2007, James D. McCallister, King's Highway, page 162:
      In his unfortunate absence at this far remove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever.
  5. Distance in time or space; interval.
  6. (figuratively, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
  7. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
  8. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

ReferencesEdit

  • OED 2nd edition 1989

LatinEdit

VerbEdit

removē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of removeō

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

remove

  1. third-person singular present indicative of remover
  2. second-person singular imperative of remover
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