Definitions for the word "remove" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
The act of removing; a removal.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
The state of being removed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v.
(-ving) 1 take off or away from the place occupied. 2 a convey to another place; change the situation of. B get rid of; dismiss. 3 cause to be no longer present or available; take away (privileges were removed). 4 (in passive; foll. By from) distant or remote in condition (country is not far removed from anarchy). 5 (as removed adj.) (esp. Of cousins) separated by a specified number of steps of descent (a first cousin twice removed = a grandchild of a first cousin). n. 1 degree of remoteness; distance. 2 stage in a gradation; degree (several removes from what i expected). 3 form or division in some schools. removable adj. [latin removeo -mot-]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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