| 单词 | remove |
| 释义 | remove v. & n. --v 1. tr. take off or away from the place or position occupied (remove the top carefully). 2. tr. a move or take to another place; change the situation of (will you remove the tea things?). b get rid of; eliminate (will remove all doubts). 3. tr. cause to be no longer present or available; take away (all privileges were removed). 4. tr. (often foll. by from) dismiss (from office). 5. tr. colloq. kill, assassinate. 6. tr. (in passive; foll. by from) distant or remote in condition (the country is not far removed from anarchy). 7. tr. (as removed adj.) (esp. of cousins) separated by a specified number of steps of descent (a first cousin twice removed = a grandchild of a first cousin). 8. formal a intr. (usu. foll. by from, to) change one's home or place of residence. b tr. conduct the removal of. --n 1. a degree or remoteness; a distance. 2. a stage in a gradation; a degree (is several removes from what I expected). 3. Brit. a form or division in some schools. Derivatives removable adj. removability n. remover n. (esp. in sense 8b of v.). Etymology: ME f. OF removeir f. L removere remot- (as RE-, movere move) |
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