remove

v

1. take off, shed, cast off, throw off, drop, throw overboard, jettison; divest, strip, uncover, expose, lay open, bare; undress, unclothe, undrape, disrobe; disburden, disencumber; exfoliate, Pathol. desquamate, peel off, flake.

2. subtract, deduct, rebate, take away; withdraw, draw away, abstract, prescind; lessen, diminish, curtail, shorten; excise, cut off, lop off, chop off, cut out, cut away; amputate, Surg. resect, detruncate, truncate, obtruncate.

3. uproot, unroot, pull out by the roots, pull up, pluck up, root out, outroot, deracinate; pull out, draw out, tear out, take out, raise up or out, extract; unearth, excavate, dig up or out, grub up or out; weed out, rake out; draw forth, bring out, evoke, educe, elicit.

4. extricate, disentangle, disengage, disconnect, dissociate, disunite; unbind, unfasten, untie, undo, unchain, unattach; detach, disjoin, uncouple, loosen, unloose; dismantle, strip, tear off.

5. banish, relegate, exile, expatriate, proscribe, deport, maroon, excommunicate; expel, eject, ejaculate, emit; cast out, force out, dislodge, evict, oust, dispossess; drive out, thrust out, extrude, throw out, Sl. throw [s.o.] out on his ear, Sl. bounce; exclude, except, shut out, shut the door upon, bar, debar, ostracize, blackball; segregate, set apart, set aside, put aside, separate, divide, isolate, insulate; disown, repudiate, renounce, divorce.

6. depose, dethrone, unseat, uncrown, discrown, unfrock; dismiss, discharge, fire, Sl. sack, Sl. can, lay off, let go.

7. erase, cancel, rub out, scrub out, scratch out; wash out, sponge out, purge, deterge; delete, Print. dele, blue-pencil, edit, edit out; cross out, x out, black out, mark off.

8. eradicate, extirpate, exterminate, annihilate; expunge, obliterate, extinguish, efface, abolish; blot out, strike out, stamp out, crush out, wipe out.

9. kill, kill off, slay, slaughter, execute, end, destroy; murder, finish, finish off, Sl. do in, Sl. zap, dispose of; assassinate, sacrifice, get rid of, mow down, put out of the way, Inf. wipe out, do away with; massacre, liquidate, decimate.

10. nullify, neutralize, counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, offset; render unnecessary, obviate, prevent, deter, preclude, rule out; cancel, discharge, negate, invalidate, Logic. sublate, disaffirm.

11. transfer, transport, carry, shift, displace, transplant; translocate, relocate, transship, eloign, evacuate, Inf. pull up stakes; sequester, seclude, Archaic. sequestrate, retreat, retire; depart, go forth; leave, quit, go one's way, Inf. vacate, exit, decamp, debouch.

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12. subtraction, deduction, withdrawal, drawing away, abstraction; taking off, shedding, casting off, throwing off, uncovering, removal. See removal(defs. 1, 3).

13. distance, interval, space, separation; degree, stage, grade, gradation, graduation; step, extent, measure, amount, scope; mark, rung, peg, notch, cut, reach; range, compass, scale, caliber, pitch