Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to remove
Participle: removed
Gerund: removing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | remove |
| you | remove |
| he;she;it | removes |
| we | remove |
| you | remove |
| they | remove |
Perfect
| I | have removed |
| you | have removed |
| he;she;it | has removed |
| we | have removed |
| you | have removed |
| they | have removed |
Past
| I | removed |
| you | removed |
| he;she;it | removed |
| we | removed |
| you | removed |
| they | removed |
Pluperfect
| I | had removed |
| you | had removed |
| he;she;it | had removed |
| we | had removed |
| you | had removed |
| they | had removed |
Future
| I | will remove |
| you | will remove |
| he;she;it | will remove |
| we | will remove |
| you | will remove |
| they | will remove |
Future Perfect
| I | will have removed |
| you | will have removed |
| he;she;it | will have removed |
| we | will have removed |
| you | will have removed |
| they | will have removed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | remove |
| you | remove |
| he;she;it | remove |
| we | remove |
| you | remove |
| they | remove |
Perfect
| I | have removed |
| you | have removed |
| he;she;it | have removed |
| we | have removed |
| you | have removed |
| they | have removed |
Imperfect
| I | removed |
| you | removed |
| he;she;it | removed |
| we | removed |
| you | removed |
| they | removed |
Pluperfect
| I | had removed |
| you | had removed |
| he;she;it | had removed |
| we | had removed |
| you | had removed |
| they | had removed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would remove |
| you | would remove |
| he;she;it | would remove |
| we | would remove |
| you | would remove |
| they | would remove |
Perfect
| I | would have removed |
| you | would have removed |
| he;she;it | would have removed |
| we | would have removed |
| you | would have removed |
| they | would have removed |
Imperative
| you | remove |
| we | Let's remove |
| you | remove |
Verbs conjugated like 'remove'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'remove'
emove,
premove,
relove,
remote,
admove,
amove,
behove,
belove,
comove,
demote,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- bring down or reduce
- abate, contract, cut short, decrease, diminish, lower, moderate, remit, slacken, suppress, terminate
- to remove
- take
- to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
- benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, erase, fuck, jazz, liquidate, nuke, pull down, ravage, destroy, total, wipe off, wreck
- to depart; to separate from
- beat it, book, bounce, bug off, bugger off, buzz off, cut one's stick, dash, depart, duck out, exit, get away, get out, go, go away, go out, leave, make tracks, move on, namous, part, piss off, pull up stakes, quit, run along, set forth, set off, set out, sling one's hook, split, start, start out, take leave, take off, take one's leave, take wing
- to make smaller by removing something
- abate, bate, knock off, subduct, subtract, take, take away, take off
- To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.
- deduct
- to remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material
- blue-pencil, cancel, clear, cross out, eliminate, erase, exclude, expunge, obliterate, rub out, score, scrap, scratch, scrub, squelch, strike, strike out, terminate, delete
- transfer
- carry, discharge, dislodge, excavate, displace, replace, transport, separate
- eliminate
- exclude, extract
- kill
- assassinate, liquidate, destroy, murder
Antonyms
- to make larger by joining two or more things together
- add
- to make smaller by removing something
- add
- transfer
- keep, withhold, retain, appropriate
- eliminate
- include, keep, retain, maintain
- kill
- originate, revive, save, restore
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, from O.Fr.
remouvoir, from L.
removere "move back or away," from
re- "back, away" +
movere "to move" (see move). The noun is first recorded 1553, "act of removing;" sense of "space or interval by which one thing is distant from another" is attested from 1628.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Italic *wre-
4. Latin re-
5. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-
6. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
7. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
8. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
9. Proto-Italic *moweō
10. Latin moveō
11. Latin removeō
12. Old French removoir
13. Anglo-Norman removerbor.
14. Middle English removen
15. English remove
16. From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran. See: Anglo-Norman '
remover', Old French '
remouvoir', Latin '
removeo'.
Verbs referencing "remove"
Japanese
リムる.
Sample Sentences
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The affection which exists between these two—the master and the pupil—is as far removed from all ordinary care and regard, as the circumstances in which it has had its growth, are apart from the common occurrences of life. He is occupied now, in devising means of imparting to her, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] as a wig or gown connected with the administration of justice. The gentlemen of the bar being barristers and attorneys too (for there is no division of those functions as in England ) are no more removed from their clients than attorneys in our Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors are, from theirs. The jury are quite at home, and make themselves as comfortable as circumstances will permit. [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] one young face that gave me a painful impression; not one young girl whom, assuming it to be a matter of necessity that she should gain her daily bread by the labour of her hands, I would have removed from those works if I had had the power.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and thorough inquiry. Any complaint that is made against them, by the boarders, or by any one else, is fully investigated; and if good ground of complaint be shown to exist against them, they are removed, and their occupation is handed over to some more deserving person. There are a few children employed in these factories, but not many. The laws of the State forbid their working more than nine [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The politeness of the person in authority had secured to me a shelf in a nook near this red curtain, in some degree removed from the great body of sleepers: to which place I retired, with many acknowledgments to him for his attention. I found it, on after-measurement, just the width of an ordinary sheet of Bath post [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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As it is the custom in these parts to give a horse a gallon or so of cold water whenever he is in a foam with heat, we halted for that purpose, at a log inn in the wood, far removed from any other residence. It consisted of one room, bare-roofed and bare-walled of course, with a loft above. The ministering priest was a swarthy young savage, in a shirt of cotton print like [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The coachman making no reply, and plainly declining to enter into any controversy on a subject so far removed from his sympathies and feelings, another passenger says, ‘Yes, sir; ’ and the gentleman in the straw hat in acknowledgment of his courtesy, says ‘Yes, sir, ’ to him, in return. The straw hat then [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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At this time in our story, the whole St. Clare establishment is, for the time being, removed to their villa on Lake Pontchartrain. The heats of summer had driven all who were able to leave the sultry and unhealthy city, to seek the shores of the lake, and its cool sea-breezes.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Dorcas removed a comforter from the bed, straightened the clothes again, and tucked them in till Tom looked something like a chrysalis; remarking, as she did so,
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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in a few minutes to bring Samantha's dinner and we'll have the IV removed.
(Wildfire: The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost Horse)