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remove

English

  1. 🔊 degree of figurative distance or separation
    “just one remove from madness”
  2. 🔊 remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
    “remove a threat”
  3. 🔊 get rid of something abstract
    “The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage”
  4. 🔊 shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
    “He removed his children to the countryside”
  5. 🔊 remove from a position or an office
  6. 🔊 go away or leave
    “He absented himself”
  7. 🔊 dispose of
    “Get rid of these old shoes!”
  8. 🔊 cause to leave
    “The teacher took the children out of the classroom”
  9. 🔊 kill intentionally and with premeditation
    “The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 amover to remove
  2. 🔊 apear to remove
  3. 🔊 retirar to remove
  4. 🔊 toller to remove
  5. 🔊 detraer to remove, separate
  6. 🔊 desalojar to remove, to evict (someone)
  7. 🔊 remover to remove, to take away, to move
  8. 🔊 quitar to remove, to take away, to take down, to take off, to pull off, to pull out, to clear, to clear away, to strip, to strip away
  9. 🔊 sacar to remove, to extract, to get out, to take out, to dig up or dig out (e.g., the weeds, a tooth, military forces, information, the truth, remove someone from the equation or a situation)

Similar words

take take away withdraw absent take away transfer get rid of take out move out murder slay hit dispatch bump off off polish off abandon abate abrade abscond abstract amount annihilate assassinate