Verb

(en verb)

To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.

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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}

To bring up (a topic).

To make accessible to customers or clients.

To start (a campaign).

To become .

* , chapter=1

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To begin conducting business.

To enter upon; to begin.

to open''' a discussion; to '''open''' fire upon an enemy; to '''open''' trade, or correspondence; to '''open a case in court, or a meeting

(cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.

(poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.

(transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.

To load into memory for viewing or editing.

To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.

to open a closed fist

to open matted cotton by separating the fibres

(obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.

* Francis Bacon

The king opened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death.

* Bible, Jer. xx. 12

Unto thee have I opened my cause.

Verb

(remov)

(label) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.

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*(Bible), (w) xix.14:

*:Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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# To replace a dish within a course.

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(label) To murder.

To dismiss a batsman.

(label) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:

*:Die had she rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any should of falsenesse her reproue, / Or loosenesse, that she lightly did remoue .

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Karen McVeigh

, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= US rules human genes can't be patented , passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}

To depart, leave.

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*:THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple

(label) To change one's residence; to move.

*(William Shakespeare)

*:Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.

*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

*:Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.

*1834 , (David Crockett), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p.20:

*:Shortly after this, my father removed , and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.

To dismiss or discharge from office.

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