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1. Move or change something to no longer be present or in its previous position; also used metaphorically
   "remove a threat"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table";
   - take, take away, withdraw
    
2. Remove from a position or an office
    
3. Dispose of
   "remove these old shoes!";
   - get rid of
    
4. Cause to leave
   - take out, move out
    
5. Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
   "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court";
   - transfer
    
6. Stay away or leave
   "He removed himself";
   - absent
    
7. Kill intentionally and with premeditation
   "The mafia boss ordered his enemies removed";
   - murder, slay [literary], hit, dispatch, bump off [informal], off [N. Amer, informal], polish off [informal], croak
    
8. Get rid of something abstract
   "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage";
   - take away

1. Degree of figurative distance or separation
   "just one remove from madness"; "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy"
    
2. [Brit] A division in a school, especially the form prior to last

Derived forms: removed, removes, removing

Type of: disappear, distance, go away, kill, shift, transfer, vanish

Encyclopedia: Remove