remove
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
remove/rɪˈmuːv/
▶verb
- 1 take off or away from the position occupied.
■ abolish or get rid of.
■ dismiss from a post.
■ (remove to) dated relocate to (another place).
- 2 (be removed) be very different from.
- 3 (as adj. removed) separated by a particular number of steps of descent: his second cousin once removed.
- 1 a degree of remoteness or separation.
- 2 a form or division in some British schools.
– derivatives
removability noun,
removable adjective,
remover noun.
removability noun,
removable adjective,
remover noun.
– origin ME: from the OFr. stem remov-, from L. removere, from re- ‘back’ + movere ‘to move’.
'remove' also found in these Oxford entries:
abate
- abstract
- air
- anneal
- anonymize
- appendectomy
- blow
- bone
- Botox
- bowdlerize
- break
- cassava
- castrate
- casual water
- change
- clean
- clear
- clear-cut
- cling
- clip-on
- colostomy
- core
- curette
- cut
- cystectomy
- deaccession
- deadhead
- debar
- debark
- debeak
- debit
- debone
- debug
- decaffeinate
- decarbonize
- decarburize
- decertify
- declass
- declaw
- declutter
- decoke
- decolorize
- decontaminate
- decorticate
- defoliate
- defuse
- degauss
- degrease
- dehorn
- dehumidify
