Definition of Remove

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Remove

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

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.

To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

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.

The act of removing; a removal.

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.

The state of being removed.

That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.

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.

The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

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Remove Quotations

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mohandas Gandhi

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel Kant

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S. Truman

Remove Translations

remove in Dutch is elimineren, afschaffen, opdoeken
remove in French is enlevez, enlevons, emporter, emportons, emportez
remove in Italian is discostare, spostare
remove in Latin is amoveo, abrogo, extraho extraxi extractum, abdo
remove in Portuguese is remova
remove in Spanish is alejar

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