re|move

re|move «rih MOOV», verb, -moved, -mov|ing, noun.

–v.t.

1. to move from a place or position; take off; take away: »

People remove their hats in a theater.

SYNONYM(S): dislodge, shift, displace.

2. to get rid of; put an end to: »

An experiment removed all our doubt about the fact that water is made up of two gases.

3. to kill.

4. to dismiss from an office or position: »

The mayor removed the chief of police for failing to do his duty.

–v.i.

to go away; move away: »

till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane (Shakespeare).

–n.

1. the act of moving away: »

It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire (Cardinal Newman).

2. a step or degree of distance: »

At every remove the mountain seemed smaller. Figurative. His cruelty was only one remove from crime. It's a far remove from Paradise Is Spanish port (John Masefield).

3. British. one course of a meal.

╂[< Old French remouvoir < Latin removēre < r back + movēre to move]