remove

REMOVE, verb transitive [Latin removeo; re and moveo, to move.] 1. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deuteronomy 19:14. 2. To displace from an office. 3. To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint. REMOVE sorrow from thine heart. Ecclesiastes 11:10. 4. To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal. 5. To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death. REMOVE, verb intransitive 1. To change place in any manner. 2. To go from one place to another. 3. To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia. REMOVE, noun 1. Change of place. 2. Translation of one to the place of another. 3. State of being removed. 4. Act of moving a man in chess or other game. 5. Departure; a going away. 6. The act of changing place; removal. 7. A step in any scale of gradation. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. 8. Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove 9. The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet. 10. A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains. 11. Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.]