Synonyms of the word remove


REMOVEABSENT - DISAPPEAR - DISPATCH - DISTANCE - HIT - KILL - MURDER - OFF - SHIFT - SLAY - TAKE - TRANSFER - VANISH - WITHDRAW

remove

  • v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
  • v. (transitive) To murder.
  • v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
  • v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
  • v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
  • v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
  • v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
  • n. The act of removing something.
  • n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
  • n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
  • n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
  • n. Distance in time or space; interval.
  • n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
  • n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

absent

  • adj. (not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.
  • adj. (not comparable) Not existing; lacking.
  • adj. (sometimes comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
  • n. (obsolete) Absentee; a person who is away on occasion.
  • prep. In the absence of; without.
  • v. (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To keep (someone) away.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.
  • v. (transitive, rare) Leave.

disappear

  • v. (intransitive) To vanish.
  • v. (transitive) To make vanish.
  • v. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.

dispatch

  • v. To send a shipment with promptness.
  • v. To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness.
  • v. To send a journalist to a place in order to report.
  • v. To hurry.
  • v. To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
  • v. To rid; to free.
  • v. (obsolete) To deprive.
  • v. To destroy quickly and efficiently.
  • v. (computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
  • n. A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message…
  • n. The act of doing something quickly.
  • n. A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.
  • n. (obsolete) A dismissal.

distance

  • n. (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily)…
  • n. Length or interval of time.
  • n. (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
  • n. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
  • n. Remoteness in succession or relation.
  • n. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
  • n. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
  • v. (transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.

hit

  • v. (heading, physical) To strike.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
  • v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
  • v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
  • v. (heading, games) To make a play.
  • v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
  • n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
  • n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
  • n. An attack on a location, person or people.
  • n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
  • n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
  • n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
  • n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
  • n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
  • n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
  • n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
  • n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
  • adj. Designating of a popular song.
  • pron. (dialectal) It.

kill

  • v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  • v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
  • v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
  • v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
  • v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
  • v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  • v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
  • v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  • n. The act of killing.
  • n. Specifically, the death blow.
  • n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
  • n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
  • n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
  • n. A kiln.

murder

  • n. (countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
  • n. (uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
  • n. (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets…
  • n. (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
  • n. (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
  • v. To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
  • v. (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
  • v. To botch or mangle.
  • v. (figuratively, colloquial) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
  • v. (figuratively, colloquial, Britain) to devour, ravish.

off

  • adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
  • adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
  • adv. So as to be removed or separated.
  • adj. Inoperative, disabled.
  • adj. Rancid, rotten.
  • adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed…
  • adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
  • adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off).
  • adj. Started on the way.
  • adj. Far; off to the side.
  • adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post,…
  • adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
  • adj. right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle).
  • prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on.
  • prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of.
  • prep. Away from or not on.
  • prep. Disconnected or subtracted from.
  • prep. Distant from.
  • prep. No longer wanting or taking.
  • prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
  • v. (transitive, Singapore) To switch off.
  • n. (rare) beginning; starting point.

shift

  • n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
  • n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
  • n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
  • n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
  • n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
  • n. (computing) A bit shift.
  • n. (baseball) The infield shift.
  • n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
  • n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
  • n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
  • n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
  • n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
  • v. (transitive) To change, swap.
  • v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
  • v. (intransitive) To change position.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
  • v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
  • v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
  • v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
  • v. (transitive) To dispose of.
  • v. (intransitive) To hurry.
  • v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
  • v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
  • v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

slay

  • v. (now literary) To kill, murder.
  • v. (literary) To eradicate or stamp out.
  • v. (by extension, colloquial) To defeat, overcome (in a competition or contest).
  • v. (slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
  • v. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To amaze, stun or otherwise incapacitate by awesomeness; to be awesome…

take

  • v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
  • v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To remove.
  • v. (transitive) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  • v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
  • v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
  • v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
  • v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  • v. (transitive) To consume.
  • v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  • v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
  • v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  • v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
  • v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  • v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  • v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  • v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  • v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  • v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
  • v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
  • v. (transitive) To require.
  • v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
  • v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
  • v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
  • v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
  • v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
  • v. (transitive) To move into.
  • v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
  • v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
  • v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  • v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with.
  • v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
  • v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
  • v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
  • v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  • v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  • v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
  • n. The or an act of taking.
  • n. Something that is taken; a haul.
  • n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
  • n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
  • n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
  • n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
  • n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
  • n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
  • n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
  • n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

transfer

  • v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
  • v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
  • v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  • n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
  • n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
  • n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  • n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
  • n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

vanish

  • v. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
  • v. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
  • n. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from…
  • n. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.

withdraw

  • v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
  • v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
  • v. (intransitive) To retreat.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.

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