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Removed

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.]

  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

    Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.
    --Deut. xix. 14.

    When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.
    --Goldsmith.

  2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. ``King Richard thus removed.''
    --Shak.

  3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

    Note: See the Note under Remove, v. i.

Removed

Removed \Re*moved"\ (r?-m??vd"), a.

  1. Changed in place.

  2. Dismissed from office.

  3. Distant in location; remote. ``Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.''
    --Shak.

  4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. [1913 Webster] -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r?-m??v"?d-n?s), n.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
removed

"distant in relationship" (by some expressed degree), 1540s, from past participle of remove (v.). Meaning "remote, separated, secluded" is from 1610s.

Wiktionary
removed
  1. 1 Separated in time, space, or degree. 2 Of a different generation, older or younger v

  2. (en-past of: remove)

WordNet
removed
  1. adj. taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead [syn: abstracted]

  2. far apart in nature; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics" [syn: remote, removed(p)]

  3. far distant in space; "distant lands"; "remote stars"; "a remote outpost of civilization"; "a hideaway far removed from towns and cities" [syn: distant, remote]

  4. separated in relationship by a given degree of descent; "a cousin once removed" [syn: removed(p)]

  5. far distant in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"; "a civilization ten centuries removed from modern times" [syn: distant, remote]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "removed".

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.

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.

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.

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.

A delicensed surgeon stacked twenty thousand in cash in his briefcase and prepared to saw off the right leg of a man afflicted with the rare condition apotemnophilia, the sexual desire to have limbs removed.

This clock was removed, with the statues, to make room for another at the beginning of this century, and it appears that the arches and gables were also altered, which may perhaps account for their present ugly appearance.

Now in Allahabad, it is likely that the pillar was removed down-river from Kausambi, an ancient and architecturally distinguished city in the Ganges basin where some of the earliest examples of the arch have been found.

It may be entirely removed for the time by wetting the wool in hot water, then drying it in a stretched condition, or the curl may be artificially induced by unequal drying, a fact which is turned to practical account in the curling of feathers and of hair.

Madison, in the case both of appointees by the President and Senate and by the President alone, a purely ministerial act which has been lodged by statute with the Secretary of State and the performance of which may be compelled by mandamus unless the appointee has been in the meantime validly removed.

The effect of this was so astoundingly nasty that we shall not be referring to it again at any point in this narrative-other than to record briefly the fact that it caused Zaphod to throw up inside his suit, which he therefore removed and swapped, after suitable headgear modifications, with the empty one.

Universal military education for me and mine and all other Americans is his slogan, and his aim is to recreate the America of the early Seventies, which became hardened and callous through the years by reason of resistance to the German menace of autocracy, but now removed.