Synonyms for remove
Definitions
- v. 1
To delete.
- v. 2
To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
He removed the marbles from the bag.
Related words
- Word family
- removable removal removalist
- Is a kind of
- diminish split
Forms
- Past participle
- removed
e.g. removed → taken, moved, eliminated, deleted…
Choose the right word
Etymologically, to alleviate is to lift a burden toward oneself, and so lighten it for the bearer; to relieve is to lift it back from the bearer, nearly or quite away; to remove is to take it away altogether. Alleviate is thus less than relieve; relieve, ordinarily, less than remove.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- delete Please tell me how to delete my Facebook account.
- eliminate Algeria needs to eliminate its endemic corruption.
- expel The elders decided to expel him from the village.
- obliterate It's time to obliterate those walls of yours!
- transfer I haven't got any money on me, but I can transfer.
- extract Algeria needs to use solar energy to extract water.
By length
- 3 letters
- get1
- 4 letters
- take1, move1, pull1, skim1, bate1
- 5 letters
- waste1, expel2, eject2, abate2
- 6 letters
- delete2, export2, retire2, absent2, deduct2, divest2
- 7 letters
- destroy2, extract2, discard2
- 8 letters
- transfer2, withdraw2, subtract2, displace2, dislodge2, amputate3
- 9 letters
- eliminate4, eradicate4
- 10 letters
- transplant2, obliterate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (expel2 = 2 syllables).