remove
/ɹɪˈmuv/ verb B1- To delete.
- To move from one place to another, especially to take away. · He removed the marbles from the bag.
- To murder.
- To dismiss a batsman.
- To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To dismiss or discharge (someone) from an official position or office. · The President removed many postmasters.
Plural remove · He/she/it removes · Past removed · Past participle removed · -ing form removing
Verb forms
- Base form
- remove
- He/she/it
- removes
- Past
- removed
- Past participle
- removed
- -ing form
- removing
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Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar.
“The mere fact that the ring should be absent, whoever may have removed it, would suggest to anyone’s mind, would it not, that the marriage and the tragedy were connected?”
de Saint-Méran’s oldest friends, and chamberlain to the Comte d’Artois, “that the Holy Alliance purpose removing him from thence?”
I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand.
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