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remove
English
Etymology
From Middle English remeven, removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin remov?re, from re- + mov?re (“to move”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???mu?v/
- Rhymes: -u?v
Verb
remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)
- (transitive) To delete.
- (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
- 1560, Geneva Bible, The Geneva Bible#page/n182 Deuteronomy 19:14:
- Thou ?halt not remoue thy neighbours marke, which thei of olde time haue ?et in thine inheritance, that thou ?halt inherit the lãd, which the Lord thy God giueth the to po??e??e it.
- (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
- 1560, Geneva Bible, The Geneva Bible#page/n182 Deuteronomy 19:14:
- (transitive) To murder.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
- (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p.20:
- Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
- I am going to remove. / Where are you going to remove to? / I don't know yet. / When will you know?
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- unstay
Antonyms
- (move something from one place to another): settle, place, add
Derived terms
- removable
- removal
- removalist
- remover
Translations
Noun
remove (plural removes)
- The act of removing something.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
- And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
- (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
- (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- (figuratively, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
- 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista
- It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
- 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Latin
Verb
remov?
- second-person singular present active imperative of remove?
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?vi
Verb
remove
- third-person singular present indicative of remover
- second-person singular imperative of remover
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remedy
English
Etymology
From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???m?di/
- Hyphenation: rem?e?dy
Noun
remedy (plural remedies)
- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
Synonyms
- (Scottish contexts): remeid
Derived terms
- home remedy
- remediless
Translations
Verb
remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)
- (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
- Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
Synonyms
- redress
- help
- correct
- cure
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Translations
Related terms
- remediable
- remedial
Further reading
- remedy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- remedy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- remedy at OneLook Dictionary Search
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