removed
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
removed
adj 1: separated in relationship by a given degree of descent;
"a cousin once removed"
2: separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past
or future" [syn: {distant}, {remote}, {removed}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.
--Deut. xix.
14.
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When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving
us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.
--Goldsmith.
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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.
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3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President
removed many postmasters.
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Note: See the Note under {Remove}, v. i.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Removed \Re*moved"\ (r?-m??vd"), a.
1. Changed in place.
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2. Dismissed from office.
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3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you
could purchase in so removed a dwelling." --Shak.
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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.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
140 Moby Thesaurus words for "removed":
Olympian, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, asunder,
at a distance, away, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly,
cold, companionless, constrained, cool, detached, devious,
disarticulated, disconnected, discreet, discrete, disengaged,
disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed,
disrelated, dissociated, distal, distant, disunited, divided,
divorced, estranged, exclusive, exotic, expressionless, extraneous,
far, far off, far-flung, far-off, faraway, forbidding, foreign,
friendless, frigid, frosty, guarded, homeless, icy, impassive,
impersonal, in a backwater, inaccessible, incommensurable,
incomparable, independent, insular, interspaced, intervaled,
introverted, irrelative, isolate, isolated, kithless, lone, lonely,
lonesome, long-distance, long-range, modest, offish, other,
out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, outlying, parted,
quarantined, remote, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent,
retired, retiring, rootless, scattered, secluded, seclusive,
secret, segregate, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered,
set at intervals, shrinking, shut off, single-handed, solitary,
solo, spaced, spaced out, standoff, standoffish, strange, subdued,
suppressed, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffable, unaffiliated,
unaided, unallied, unapproachable, unassisted, unassociated,
unattended, uncongenial, unconnected, undemonstrative, unescorted,
unexpansive, unfrequented, ungenial, unrelatable, unrelated,
unseconded, unsupported, unvisited, with an interval,
with intervals, withdrawn
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