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

(retriev)

To regain or get back something.

to retrieve''' one's character or independence; to '''retrieve a thrown ball

* Dryden

With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.

To rescue (a) creature(s)

To salvage something

To remedy or rectify something.

To remember or recall something.

To fetch or carry back something.

* Berkeley

to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits

To fetch and bring in game.

The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved .

To fetch and bring in game systematically.

Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving .

To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.

Most dogs love retrieving , regardless of what object is thrown.

(sports) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.

(obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).

* Prior

Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.

* Burke

There is much to be done and much to be retrieved .