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(v)
To remove.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To rid oneself of; to cause oneself to be free of or released from.
To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.
(idiomatic, intransitive) To leave one's present location; to leave somewhere for another place.
(chiefly US, idiomatic) To kill, especially to murder.
(ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
(transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
(reflexive) To keep (oneself) away.
(heading, physical) To strike.
(idiomatic) To finish completely, especially a food (polish the plate with one's tongue) or liquor.
(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
(n)
The process of removing or the fact of being removed.
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
The act of deleting.
(transitive) To disconnect from a supply, especially an electrical socket.
(transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
(printing, usually imperative) To delete.
(ambitransitive) To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.
To take out of service or to render unusable.
(transitive) To eject.
The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
(transitive) To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
(transitive) To take apart from; to take off.
(transitive) To remove (markings or information).
(intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
(intransitive) To leave the ground and ascend into the air or into flight.
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
(transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
(intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something.
(transitive) To decouple; to remove a link from, or separate the links of.
(transitive) To expel; to remove.
(transitive) To sever or interrupt a connection.
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
(transitive) To detach from any connecting agency or link; to disconnect.
(transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
The process of disassembling.
(transitive) To make loose.
(transitive, figuratively) To remove (someone) from an office or position, especially a political one; to dethrone.
(transitive) To cut free.
(transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
(transitive) To throw away, to reject.
(transitive) To unlock by undoing the bolts of.
(transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
(transitive) To remove a clamp from.
(transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
(transitive) To loosen a screw or thing by turning it.
To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.
The act by which something is dismantled.
(historical, often capitalised, UK, US) The ending of the slave trade or of slavery.
(transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) get off (something).
(transitive) To let go of; to cease to hold or contain.
The act by which things are disposed, or set out.
(transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
To move out of a dwelling or other property, either by choice or by eviction.
(transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force; to usurp.
(transitive) to unfasten (the buckle of (a belt, shoe, etc))
(transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.
(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
(countable) A disposing of or getting rid of something.
(transitive) To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
(graphical user interface, US, Canada) To remove a checkmark.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
(intransitive) To cease moving.
The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
(intransitive) To vanish.
(intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
To reverse the effects of an action.
(transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
(formal, intransitive) To stop.
The act or process of making or becoming clear.
(transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
Alternative form of phaseout. [The action of phasing out; an incremental removal or reduction.]
(transitive) (also reflexive) Followed by of: to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance.
withdrawal
to unregister
(transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
(transitive) To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
The act or instance of suppressing.
The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
(intransitive) To withdraw from a position, go back.
(transitive) (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
The act by which something is suppressed; a suppression.
(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
(transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.