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# remove

«remove» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take something away from where it was: remove the plates** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (remove, removes, removed, removing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To remove is to take something away from where it was: remove the plates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#m1)

2) To remove is to take off: remove your shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#m2)

3) To remove is to get rid of something: remove a stain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

taking things off the table or out of a box («Zoe removes 4 apples from the basket» = subtract from that place); in science removing a variable in a test; in everyday life «remove your hat indoors», «remove the label»; in safety only adults remove splinters or broken glass

### examples

- I remove two spoons from the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#x1)
- Zoe removes 4 apples from the basket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#x2)
- Tom removed 6 books from the shelf. How many books are on the shelf now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#x3)
- Please remove your muddy shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#x4)
- Remove the lid carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#x5)
- This soap removes dirt and germs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#x6)
- Ask an adult to remove the broken glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#x7)
- The doctor removed the splinter from my finger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/#x8)

### note

What is removed leaves the place it was in: subtract from that place. Trap: the removed things are added to wherever they are put. Noun «removal».

### In the corpora

- [Fakes can spread faster than they can be removed; reporting them helps and sharing them harms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/13/)
- [Free music apps earn money from adverts; a paid subscription removes them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/10/)
- [Wires can hold actors up safely, and the wires are removed later by computer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/6/)
- [Chimps groom each other to remove dirt and bugs, but also to make friends and make up after fights.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/8/)
- [Penguins can drink sea water, because a special gland above the eyes removes extra salt, which drips out from the beak.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «remove» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remove/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.