Word Finder - remove

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The act of removing something.

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(archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.

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(at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last

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A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")

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Distance in time or space; interval.

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(by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.

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The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.

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The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

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To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.

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He removed the marbles from the bag.

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To murder.

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To dismiss a batsman.

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To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

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To depart, leave.

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To change one's residence; to move.

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To dismiss or discharge from office.

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The President removed many postmasters.

I can remove them now.

I was trying to remove that bird's nest.

She slapped her gloves together to remove some of the mud.

We must remove the queen.

Remove them all and see if it makes a difference.

She shook her head to remove the cobwebs of imagination.

He started past her, then paused, returning to her side to remove the translator from her ear.

He didn't remove his mask and hood, even within the confines of his home.

She cleaned the table and then went out to the porch to remove an empty bird nest from the eve.

Dean could feel the man begin to remove his wallet.

She'd hoped sleep would remove some of her confusion from her night.

I couldn't let that happen nor could I remove them myself since Billy and the boy had seen them.

Alex replaced the receiver and leaned forward in his chair, rubbing his face as if to remove the conversation.

We must remove it in my domain in order for my magic to work properly.

You will send me home, and you'll remove Toby, Gabriel, and every other interference you placed in my life, down to the scuff marks in the hallway, which I know

She shook her head to remove the unbidden thoughts.

If the poor remove rich people's incentives to produce economic gain, the rich, who behave somewhat rationally, will stop producing.

She swallowed to remove the lump in her throat and looked away.

They're tearing apart our home, trying to find something they think can remove me from my position.

Deidre had bartered for Darkyn to remove the tumor and to do so without pain.

She stiffened, resisting an urge to tell him to remove his hand.

Remove him from his comfort zone.

She objected to its miscellaneous fruits and began to remove them, evidently thinking they were all meant for her.

Make a note of the exact settings after you remove all your plants.

It would remove the obstacle between you and your mate.

Stay on the existing trails and roadways, be courteous to other users and remove all trash and equipment.

We had to remove the uterus — but you still have your ovaries.

He'd have no reason to remove her body and dispose of it somewhere else.

I, uh, made a deal with Darkyn a few days ago for him to remove my brain tumor.

The latter was so well designed, so naturally and beautifully coloured, and so strongly expressive of suffering and agony, that it was found necessary to remove it from the place where it had been exhibited in the chapel of a convent.

Pettenkofer, it is impossible to remove all the silver by means of sulphuric acid.

She scrubbed her skin rosy for nearly an hour and finally abandoned the attempt to remove the guilt.

Please, Elizabeth, remove all of your clothing; everything and come to the door with your hands in front of you.

She couldn't bring herself to try, just like she couldn't remove her hand.

Connor assumed his best course would be to remove the IV from Elisabeth's arm, and saw this as his opportunity.

Her lips parted, but the command to remove his hands never escaped her mouth.

She clutched his wrists, the logical side of her brain preparing to remove his hands from her face, the emotional side wishing he would repeat the kiss.

He here observes that " all quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little from one another."

Sand-pumps and bailers are also required to remove detritus, water and oil from the bore-hole.

The products obtained by the distillation of petroleum are not in a marketable condition, but require chemical treatment to remove acid and other bodies which impart a dark colour as well as an unpleasant odour to the liquid, and in the case of lamp-oils, reduce the power of rising in the wick by capillary attraction.

Hurrying back to Rome, Hadrian endeavoured to remove the unfavourable impression produced by the whole affair and to gain the goodwill of senate and people.

Coral reefs remove calcium from solution in the sea on a vast scale.

At first he did not see anything that disturbed him; for word had gone before him to remove from sight everything that might be displeasing or painful.

If you remove it, you are making more than one decision.

Only his superb strategy and the heroic devotion of his lieutenants - notably the converted Jew, Jan Samuel Chrzanowski, who held the Ottoman army at bay for eleven days behind the walls of Trembowla - enabled the king to remove "the pagan yoke from our shoulders"; and he returned to be crowned at Cracow on the 14th of February 1676.

The pope or his legate, however, took no steps to remove abuses or otherwise reform the Scandinavian churches.

Should a defect occur with a wrought iron boiler it is usually necessary for the purpose of repair to disconnect and remove the whole apparatus, the heating system of which it forms a part being in the meantime useless.

The first really notable council at St Paul's was that of 1075 under the presidency of Lanfranc; it renewed ancient regulations, forbade simony and permitted three bishops to remove from country places to Salisbury, Chichester and Chester respectively.

Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, who, when censor, endeavoured to remove Saturninus from the senate on the ground of immorality, but his colleague refused to assent.

The vessel, however, which contains this mixture has to be of earthenware, porcelain or enamelled iron on account of the free acid present; the gas must be washed after purification to remove traces of hydrochloric acid, and care must be taken to prevent the complete neutralization of the acid by the ammonia present in the gas.