remove
/ɹɪˈmuv/ noun C2- The act of removing something.
- A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- Emotional distance or indifference.
- State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
Plural removes
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Now, if you please, remove your bandage.” The general tore the handkerchief from his eyes.
“‘Here is a ring that will obtain audience of him, and remove every difficulty,’ said the captain.
Now for a moment I will ask leave to remove my own insignificant personality and to describe events which occurred before we arrived upon the scene by the light of knowledge which came to us afterwards.
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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