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Removed   /rimˈuvd/   Listen
Removed

adjective
1.
Separated in relationship by a given degree of descent.
2.
Separate or apart in time.  Synonyms: distant, remote.  "The remote past or future"



Remove

verb
(past & past part. removed; pres. part. removing)
1.
Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.  Synonyms: take, take away, withdraw.  "Remove a wrapper" , "Remove the dirty dishes from the table" , "Take the gun from your pocket" , "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
2.
Remove from a position or an office.
3.
Dispose of.  Synonym: get rid of.  "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
4.
Cause to leave.  Synonyms: move out, take out.
5.
Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes.  Synonym: transfer.  "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city" , "Remove a case to another court"
6.
Go away or leave.  Synonym: absent.
7.
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.  Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, slay.
8.
Get rid of something abstract.  Synonym: take away.  "God takes away your sins"



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"Removed" Quotes from Famous Books



... if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven."[17] "If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."[18] "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive ...
— The Mistakes of Jesus • William Floyd

... felt in her heart. At length she took to her bed—that bed from which she was fated to rise no more. She was then at the Chateau of Choisy; neither the king nor his courtiers imagined that her disease was serious, but she herself well knew that her hour was come. She entreated the king to have her removed to Versailles; she wished to die upon the throne of her glory—to die as a queen in the royal palace, still issuing her orders to the troop of servile courtiers who were accustomed to wait ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various

... highly distasteful; he frowned, bit his lip, and showed such uncontrollable signs of impatience, that, setting the bottle immediately down, I attempted some apology. To this he did not deign either to reply, or even to listen; and Cristal, at a signal from his master, removed the object of my curiosity, as well as the cup, upon which the same arms ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

... collar, wearing a cast-off coat given him by his master, his round-bowed spectacles on the tip of his nose, entered the room, bowing very low. He took his stand in one corner and tuned his violin. The chairs and light-stand were removed ...
— Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times - 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance • Charles Carleton Coffin

... family tie; ties of blood; nepotism. kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sibling, sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin- german[obs3]; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice &c. removed; near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood. family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood[obs3]. race, stock, generation; sept &c. 166; stirps, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


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