removing

Verb

remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)

1. (transitive) To delete.
2. (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
   • He removed the marbles from the bag.
   1. (formal, obsolete, transitive) To replace a dish within a course.
      • But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
3. (transitive) To murder.
4. (transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
5. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
   • Eternall thraldom was to her more liefe, / Then loſſe of chaſtitie, or chaunge of loue : / Dye had ſhe rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any ſhould of falſeneſſe her reproue, / Or looſeneſſe, that ſhe lightly did remoue.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 524

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