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1. Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
   "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"
   - take, take away, withdraw
    
2. Remove from a position or an office
    
3. Dispose of
   - 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. Go away or leave
   - absent
    
7. Kill intentionally and with premeditation
   - murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off
    
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" or "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy"

Derived forms: removing, removes, removed

See also: remotion, removal, remover

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

Encyclopedia: Remove