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. Cause to leave
   "The security guards removed the unruly spectators";
   - take out, move out
    
3. 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
    
4. Remove from a position or an office
   "The board voted to remove the CEO after the scandal"
    
5. Dispose of
   "remove these old shoes!";
   - get rid of
    
6. Get rid of something abstract
   "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage";
   - take away
    
7. Stay away or leave
   "He removed himself";
   - absent

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
   "He was in the second remove, with just one more year before graduation"

Derived forms: removed, removing, removes

Type of: act, cause, disappear, distance, get, go away, have, induce, make, move, shift, stimulate, transfer, vanish

Encyclopedia: Remove