Remove /(r?-m??v")/

imp. & p. p. Removed; p. pr. & vb. n. Removing

1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

   Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.

   When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.

2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.
3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

1. To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.

   Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I can not taint with fear.

1. The act of removing; a removal.

   This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.

   And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.

   It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.

3. The state of being removed.
4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.

   A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.

6. The act of resetting a horse's shoe. (Far.)