Word Meanings - REMOVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: REMOVE

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 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. 3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters. Note: See the Note under Remove, v. i.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REMOVE)

• Abate
• Terminate
• remove
• suppress
• lower
• reduce
• mitigate
• diminish
• moderate
• lessen
• subside
• decrease
• Amputate
• Prune
• lop
• curtail
• clip
• Convey
• Take
• carry
• transfer
• relegate
• bear
• transmit
• consign
• transport
• Deduct
• Subtract
• bate
• Oust
• Eject
• dispossess
• deprive
• evict
• eject
• dislodge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REMOVE)

• Increase
• grow
• amplify
• expand
• augment
• extend
• enlarge
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate

Related words: (words related to REMOVE)

• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• CONSIGNER
  One who consigns. See Consignor.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• DEDUCTIVE
  Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.
• TRANSMITTER
  One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.
• DEDUCTIVELY
  By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• PRUNER
  Any one of several species of beetles whose larvæ gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner , whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• REPRUNE
  To prune again or anew. Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew. Young.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.