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.

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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

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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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Verb

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.

:I try to avoid the company of gamblers.

*1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 4:

*:The devyllsayde unto hym: all these will I geve the, iff thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Jesus unto hym. Avoyde Satan.

*Milton

*:What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid ?

*Macaulay

*:He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.

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(obsolete) To make empty; to clear.

:(Wyclif)

To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).

*Spenser

*:How can these grants of the king's be avoided ?

(legal) 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.

:(Blackstone)

(obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.

:(Sir Thomas Browne)

(obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.

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*:Anone they encountred to gyders / and he with the reed shelde smote hym soo hard that he bare hym ouer to the erthe / There with anone came another Knyght of the castel / and he was smyten so sore that he auoyded his fadel

*Francis Bacon

*:Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room.

(obsolete) To get rid of.

:(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.

(obsolete) To become void or vacant.