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Answer for the clue "Get rid of ", 6 letters:
remove

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Word definitions for remove in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "move, take away, dismiss," from Old French removoir "move, stir; leave, depart; take away," from Latin removere "move back or away, take away, put out of view, subtract," from re- "back, away" (see re- ) + movere "to move" (see move (v.)). ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remove \Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-m??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Removing .] [OF. removoir, remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move .] To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. degree of figurative distance or separation; "just one remove from madness" or "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy";

Usage examples of remove.

The short drive ended with him being carried onto a hypersonic aircraft, just big enough to accommodate Tochee at the back where a dozen seats had been removed.

IT people or accounting people to increase their own salaries, make payments to a phony vendor, remove negative ratings from HR records, and so on.

Take away the opportunity of the individual to accumulate wealth for himself, and you remove the temptation for fraud, theft and numerous other crimes, for there is then no incentive left for them.

Whitehall exhaled slowly, extinguished the acetylene flame, and removed his goggles.

Before she could answer, however, I remembered something she had just said and a sudden and terrifying thought occurred to me: Mr Advowson had said that it was Hinxman who had removed the entry from the vestry and I tried now to recall if Sukey had seen him on that distant day when he and Emma tried to abduct me.

He sat there in the office, tapping at the computer as he wrung the cost analyses out of it, adding variables, removing the more unlikely ones, inserting market projections and probable effects on other affiliated firms of the company.

The soil was removed from around one of these arched secondary shoots, and a glass filament was affixed to the basal leg.

At this rate, he was going to be ambulatory in a few hours, so I removed the restraints.

Then, and not until then, did Gregori carefully remove his foot from the ampoule, stoop, pick it up and slide it back inside its steel jacket.

Please remove the hemp to a place sufficiently distant from the house, so that its bad smell may not annoy the spirits to be evoked by me, and let the air be purified by the discharge of gunpowder.

He asserted that the scheme he was about to propose would remove all these inconveniencies, prevent numberless frauds, perjuries, and false entries, and add two or three hundred thousand pounds per annum to the public revenue.

If he had known that Sir Winton was in London, he would have introduced Jon as the vicar and Torwell as an antiquarian, removing his reputation from consideration.

But since she accepted him as a harmless antiquarian, she also removed her habit coat whenever the work made her hot.

Once Beryla and her lover left the lab, Hael Sejm went to the refrigeration unit and removed thirty-two vials of antitoxin, placing them on a tray with just that many syringes.

With the tendons gleaming softly in their beds, I removed the last bits of the aponeurosis, sprayed the wound with a mixture of alcohol and distilled water for disinfection, and set about closing the incisions.