remove
pronunciation
How to pronounce remove in British English:
UK [rɪˈmuːv]
How to pronounce remove in American English:
US [rɪˈmuːv]
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- Noun:
- degree of figurative distance or separation
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- Verb:
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- cause to leave
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- go away or leave
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
Word Origin
- remove
- remove: [14] The -move of remove comes from the same source as English move itself – Latin movēre ‘move’. Combination with the prefix re- ‘again, back’ produced removēre ‘move back, move away’, which reached English via Old French removeir. The Latin past participle remōtus gave English remote [15], etymologically ‘moved away to a distant place’.=> move, remote
- remove (v.)
- early 14c., "move, take away, dismiss," from Old French removoir "move, stir; leave, depart; take away," from Latin removere "move back or away, take away, put out of view, subtract," from re- "back, away" (see re-) + movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Related: Removed; removing.
- remove (n.)
- 1550s, "act of removing," from remove (v.). Sense of "distance or space by which any thing is removed from another" is attested from 1620s.
Example
- 1. Remove any psychological barriers you may have set up .
- 2. Wise firms will strive to remove barriers for women .
- 3. Further processes evaporate water and remove things like mercury .
- 4. The happy ones remove all conditions on their happiness .
- 5. Now to remove time from this expression .