Remove and Avoid

remove

Degree of figurative distance or separation.
- usage: "just one remove from madness" or "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy";

Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.
- usage: "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
- synonyms: take, take away, withdraw
Remove from a position or an office.
Dispose of.
- usage: "Get rid of these old shoes"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
- synonyms: get rid of
Cause to leave.
- usage: "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"
- synonyms: take out, move out
Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes.
- usage: "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court"
- synonyms: transfer
Go away or leave.
- usage: "He absented himself"
- synonyms: absent
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
- usage: "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
- synonyms: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off
Get rid of something abstract.
- usage: "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes away your sins"
- synonyms: take away

(n.) The transfer of one's business or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.
(n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
(v.t.) 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.
(v.t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
(n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
(n.) The act of removing; a removal.
(v.t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
(n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
(n.) The state of being removed.
(v.i.) To change place in any manner or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position or place to another.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

avoid

Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.
- usage: "Her former friends now avoid her"
Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.
- usage: "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
- synonyms: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, ward off
Refrain from doing something.
- usage: "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
Refrain from certain foods or beverages.
- usage: "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
- synonyms: keep off
Declare invalid.
- usage: "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
- synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, void, nullify

(a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
(a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
(v.i.) To become void or vacant.
(a.) To get rid of.
(a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
(a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
(a.) To empty.
(v.i.) To retire; to withdraw.
(a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary