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removed

[ ri-moovd ]

adjective

  1. remote; separate; not connected with; distinct from.

    Synonyms: , , , ,

  2. distant by a given number of degrees of descent or kinship:

    A first cousin once removed is the child of one's first cousin or the first cousin of one’s parent.

    The grandchildren of one's first cousin are one's first cousins twice removed.



removed

/ rɪˈmuːvd; rɪˈmuːvɪdnɪs /

adjective

  1. separated by distance or abstract distinction
  2. postpositive separated by a degree of descent or kinship

    the child of a person's first cousin is his first cousin once removed

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • removedness, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ·DZ·· [ri-, moo, -vid-lee, -, moovd, -], adverb
  • ·DZĻ·Ա noun
  • ܲr·DZ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of removed1

First recorded in 1540–50; remove + -ed 2
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Example Sentences

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Earlier this year he was removed from the European Parliament for disrupting a Holocaust memorial ceremony.

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The comments came into focus after TikTok stated in a report it had removed a network of over 27,000 inauthentic accounts that "used fictitious personas to post comments related to the Romanian elections".

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"There are still some pieces of shrapnel in my body that couldn't be removed. There were battles where it seemed like we would all be killed. But some of us survived while others fell."

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At one point she even considered having her eye removed.

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The retailers “have removed anything that still remained in inventory. No other production dates or Martinelli’s products are affected by this recall.”

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