REMOVE, v.t. [L. removeo; re and moveo, to move.] 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. 19.2. 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. 11.4. 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.REMOVE, v.i. 1. To change place in any manner.2. To go from one place to another.3. To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.REMOVE, n. 1. Change of place.2. Translation of one to the place of another.3. State of being removed.4. Act of moving a man in chess or other game.5. Departure; a going away.6. The act of changing place; removal.7. A step in any scale of gradation.A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.8. Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove.9. The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.10. A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.11. Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.]
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