REMOVE, v.t. [L. removeo; re and moveo, to move.]

1. Change of place. – Chapman.
2. Translation of one to the place of another. – Shak.
3. State of being removed. – Locke.
4. Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
5. Departure; a going away. Waller.
6. The act of changing place; removal. – Bacon.
7. A step in any scale of gradation. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.
8. Any indefinite distance; as, a small or great remove. – Rogers.
9. The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet. – Swift.
10. A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains. – Johnson.
11. Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.] – Glanville.

1. To change place in any manner.
2. To go from one place to another. – Prior.
3. To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia. [Note. The verb remove, in most of its applications, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular continued course or motion. We never say, the wind or water or a ship removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say, a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand or seat, to another station.]

1. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. – Deut. xix.
2. To displace from an office.
3. To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint. Remove sorrow from thine heart. – Eccles. xi.
4. To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.
5. To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.

1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
   
   

   Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14.

   When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed. Goldsmith.

2. To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.
   
   

   Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
   I can not taint with fear. Shak.

   * The verb remove, in some of its application, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.

3. The act of removing; a removal.
   
   

   This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship. Milton.

   And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. Goldsmith.

4. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.
   
   
   "King Richard thus removed." Shak.
5. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; - - in the United States usually called a move.
   
   

   It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. J. H. Newman.

6. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
   
   

   * See the Note under Remove, v. i.

7. The state of being removed.
   
   
   Locke.
8. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
9. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
   
   

   A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.

10. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
    
    
    Swift.