Remove and Kill

noun

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

verb

• 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.

noun

• The act of terminating a life.
  • synonyms: killing, putting to death
• The destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile.
  • usage: "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"

verb

• Cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.
  • usage: "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
• Thwart the passage of.
  • usage: "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
  • synonyms: shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out
• End or extinguish by forceful means.
  • usage: "Stamp out poverty"
  • synonyms: stamp out
• Be fatal.
  • usage: "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills"
• Be the source of great pain for.
  • usage: "These new shoes are killing me"
• Overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration.
  • usage: "The comedian was so funny, he was killing me"
• Hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games.
  • usage: "She killed the ball"
• Hit with great force.
  • usage: "He killed the ball"
• Deprive of life.
  • usage: "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa"
• Cause the death of, without intention.
  • usage: "She was killed in the collision of three cars"
• Drink down entirely.
  • usage: "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
  • synonyms: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down
• Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase.
  • usage: "kill these lines in the President's speech"
  • synonyms: obliterate, wipe out
• Tire out completely.
  • usage: "The daily stress of her work is killing her"
• Cause to cease operating.
  • usage: "kill the engine"
• Destroy a vitally essential quality of or in.
  • usage: "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

• (v.t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
• (n.) A kiln.
• (v.t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
• (v.t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
• (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
• (v.t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
• (n.) The act of killing.
• (n.) An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.