Remove and Off

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

off

Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
- usage: "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
- synonyms: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, polish off, remove

Not in operation or operational.
- usage: "the oven is off"; "the lights are off"
Below a satisfactory level.
- usage: "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off"
Of events. ( no longer planned or scheduled)
- usage: "the wedding is definitely off"
- synonyms: cancelled
In an unpalatable state.
- usage: "sour milk"
- synonyms: sour, turned
Not performing or scheduled for duties.
- usage: "He's off every Tuesday"

From a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete. )
- usage: "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"
- synonyms: away, forth
At a distance in space or time)
- usage: "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away. "; "away back in the 18th century"
- synonyms: away
No longer on or in contact or attached.
- usage: "clean off the dirt"; "he shaved off his mustache"

(adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
(n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
(interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
(prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
(a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
(adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:.
(adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
(adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
(adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
(adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.
(a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary