Remove Meaning
/ɹɪˈmuːv/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo delete.
verbTo move from one place to another, especially to take away.
Sentence Examples
Please remove your shoes before entering the house.
Please remove the mud from your shoes.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The experienced surgeon had to ____ the bullet from the patient's leg.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The surgeon had to ____ a small growth from the patient's neck during the routine procedure.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Proto-Italic *wremoweō Latin removeō Old French removoir Anglo-Norman removerbor. Middle English removen English remove 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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Thou ſhalt not remoue thy neghbours marke which they of olde tyme haue ſett in thyne enheritaunce that thou enheretteſt in the londe which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enioye it."
— 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Deuteronomye xix:[14], folio XXXV, recto:
"His first indication of coming events was to remove the key from the outside to the inside of the door."
— 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
"Now that she was rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety."
— 1963, Margery Allingham, “Dangerous Lady”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 36:
"But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either."
— 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
"Eternall thraldom was to her more liefe, / Then loſſe of chaſtitie, or chaunge of loue : / Dye had ſhe rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any ſhould of falſeneſſe her reproue, / Or looſeneſſe, that ſhe lightly did remoue."
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 524:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The experienced surgeon had to ____ the bullet from the patient's leg.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The surgeon had to ____ a small growth from the patient's neck during the routine procedure.