remove
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• verb
To take away or move something from the position or place it occupies.
"Please remove your shoes before walking across the newly polished wooden floor."
To eliminate, abolish, or get rid of an obstacle, stain, or unwanted condition.
"The updated software patch is designed to remove security vulnerabilities across the network."
To dismiss or discharge someone from an official position, office, or role.
"The board of directors voted to remove the treasurer following the financial audit."
To move or relocate to a different place to live or work (used intransitively or reflexively).
"After retiring from the university, the professor removed to a quiet coastal village in Maine."
• noun
A degree of distance, separation, or difference from a specified point, origin, or condition.
"Watching the archival footage allows historians to examine the event at a safe remove of several decades."
A step or degree in genealogical descent separating relatives of different generations.
"Genealogists traced their shared ancestry back to a common great-grandparent at two removes."
• Rhymes for remove
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 14th century from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removere ('to move back, withdraw, take away'), formed from re- ('back, away') and movere ('to move').