remove
/ɹɪˈmuv/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He removed the marbles from the bag."
- "Thou ſhalt not remoue thy neghbours marke which they of olde tyme haue ſett in thyne enheritaunce that thou enheretteſt in the londe which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enioye it."
- "His first indication of coming events was to remove the key from the outside to the inside of the door."
- "Now that she was rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin removeō Old French removoir Anglo-Norman removerbor. Middle English removen English remove From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈmuv/
- British English: /ɹɪˈmuːv/
Usage
Inflected Forms
removes (present, singular)
removing (participle, present)
removed (participle, past)
removed (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
removed (first person, past)
removest (archaic, present)
removed (past, second person)
removedst (archaic, past)
removeth (archaic, present)
removed (past, singular)