removal Definition

remove
verb

1. To move someone or something to a different place.

Thesaurus: displace, transfer, dislodge, uproot, evacuate.
2. To take off (a piece of clothing).
3. To get rid of someone or something.
4. euphemistic
To murder or assassinate.
5. To dismiss someone from a job, position, etc.

Thesaurus: discharge, get rid of, dislodge, transfer.
intr
6a. formal
To change one's position, place, location, etc;
intr
6b. formal
To move to a new house.

noun

1. A removal.
2. The degree, usually specified, of difference separating two things.

Example: a form of government at only one remove from tyranny
(Brit)
3. In some schools: an intermediate form or class.

Derivative: removability
noun

Derivative: removable
adj

Derivative: removal

The act or process of removing or state of being removed.
Thesaurus: withdrawal, abstraction, ejection, elimination, transfer, expulsion, extraction, departure, move, purge, metastasis.

The moving of possessions, furniture, etc to a new house;

Note: as adj

Example: removal van

euphemistic
Murder or assassination.

Derivative: removed

Separated, distant or remote.

Usually said of cousins: separated by a specified number of generations or degrees of descent.
Example: first cousin once removed

Derivative: remover

Someone or something that removes.

Someone whose job is to move possessions, furniture, etc from one house to another.

Etymology: 14c: from French remouvoir.