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removing

/ɹɪˈmuːvɪŋ/ noun B1
  1. removal

Plural removings

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Lady Catherine’s unjustifiable endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 362 · B2
“He told me that it would hurt his self-respect that any other man should find the money for such an object, and that though he was a poor man himself he would devote his last penny to removing the obstacles which divided us.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 185 · C1
de Saint-Méran’s oldest friends, and chamberlain to the Comte d’Artois, “that the Holy Alliance purpose removing him from thence?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 47 · C1
“Then again, if a woman and her lover conspire to murder a husband, are they going to advertise their guilt by ostentatiously removing his wedding ring after his death?
The Valley of Fear, p. 71 · C1

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