<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.</li><li>(used with object) to take off or shed (an article of clothing): to remove one's jacket.</li><li>(used with object) to move or shift to another place or position; transfer: She removed the painting to another wall.</li><li>(used with object) to put out; send away: to remove a tenant.</li><li>(used with object) to dismiss or force from a position or office; discharge: They removed him for embezzling.</li><li>(used with object) to take away, withdraw, or eliminate: to remove the threat of danger.</li><li>(used with object) to get rid of; do away with; put an end to: to remove a stain; to remove the source of disease.</li><li>(used with object) to kill; assassinate.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of removing.</li><li>a removal from one place, as of residence, to another.</li><li>the distance by which one person, place, or thing is separated from another: to see something at a remove.</li><li>a mental distance from the reality of something as a result of psychological detachment or lack of experience: to criticize something at a remove.</li><li>a degree of difference, as that due to descent, transmission, etc.: a folk survival, at many removes, of a druidic rite.</li><li>a step or degree, as in a graded scale.</li><li>(British) a promotion of a pupil to a higher class or division at school.</li></ul>