remove

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To murder someone.
  3. Verb.  (cricket) ,(transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To discard, set aside (a thought, feeling etc.).
  5. Verb.  (intransitive, now) To depart, leave.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive) To change one's residence.
  7. Noun.  The act of removing something, especially removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course.
  8. Noun.  A dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
  9. Noun.  (British) (''at some public schools'') A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
  10. Noun.  A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
  11. Noun.  Distance in time or space.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.