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ALL meanings of removed

re·moved
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  • adjective removed taken away or extracted 1
  • adjective removed distant in some way 1
  • adjective removed remote; separate; not connected with; distinct from. 1
  • adjective removed distant by a given number of degrees of descent or kinship: A first cousin once removed is the child of one's first cousin or the first cousin of one’s parent. The grandchildren of one's first cousin are one's first cousins twice removed. 1
  • verb with object removed to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table. 1
  • verb with object removed to take off or shed (an article of clothing): to remove one's jacket. 1
  • verb with object removed to move or shift to another place or position; transfer: She removed the painting to another wall. 1
  • verb with object removed to put out; send away: to remove a tenant. 1
  • verb with object removed to dismiss or force from a position or office; discharge: They removed him for embezzling. 1
  • verb with object removed to take away, withdraw, or eliminate: to remove the threat of danger. 1
  • verb with object removed to get rid of; do away with; put an end to: to remove a stain; to remove the source of disease. 1
  • verb with object removed to kill; assassinate. 1
  • verb without object removed to move from one place to another, especially to another locality or residence: We remove to Newport early in July. 1
  • verb without object removed to go away; depart; disappear. 1
  • noun removed the act of removing. 1
  • noun removed a removal from one place, as of residence, to another. 1
  • noun removed the distance by which one person, place, or thing is separated from another: to see something at a remove. 1
  • noun removed a mental distance from the reality of something as a result of psychological detachment or lack of experience: to criticize something at a remove. 1
  • noun removed a degree of difference, as that due to descent, transmission, etc.: a folk survival, at many removes, of a druidic rite. 1
  • noun removed a step or degree, as in a graded scale. 1
  • noun removed British. a promotion of a pupil to a higher class or division at school. 1
  • adjective removed If you say that an idea or situation is far removed from something, you mean that it is very different from it. 0
  • adjective removed If someone is your cousin once removed, they are your cousin's child or your parent's cousin. 0
  • adjective removed separated by distance or abstract distinction 0
  • adjective removed separated by a degree of descent or kinship 0
  • adjective removed distant in relationship 0
  • adjective removed of a younger or older generation 0
  • adjective removed remote; distant; disconnected 0
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