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removed |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Removed \Re*moved"\ (r?-m??vd"), a. 1. Changed in place 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. ``Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.'' --Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as a cousin once removed. -- {Re*mov"ed*ness} (r?-m??v"?d-n?s), n. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Remove \Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Removed} (-m??vd"); p. pr & vb n. {Removing}.] [OF. removoir remouvoir L. removere, remotum pref. re- re- + movere to move See {Move}.] 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. --Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us I generally ordered the table to be removed. --Goldsmith. 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. ``King Richard thus removed.'' --Shak. 3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as the President removed many postmasters. Note: See the Note under {Remove}, v. i. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: removed adj 1: taken out of or separated from "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead [syn: {abstracted}] 2: far distant in space; "distant lands"; "remote stars"; "a remote outpost of civilization"; "a hideaway far removed from towns and cities" [syn: {distant}, {remote}] 3: far apart in nature; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics" [syn: {remote}, {removed(p)}] 4: separated in relationship by a given degree of descent; "a cousin once removed" [syn: {removed(p)}] 5: far distant in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"; "a civilization ten centuries removed from modern times" [syn: {distant}, {remote}]
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