REMOVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does removed mean? 

• REMOVED (adjective)
  The adjective REMOVED has 2 senses:

1. separated in relationship by a given degree of descent

2. separate or apart in time

  Familiarity information: REMOVED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMOVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Separated in relationship by a given degree of descent

Context example:

a cousin once removed

Similar:

distant; remote (far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Separate or apart in time

Synonyms:

distant; remote; removed

Context example:

the remote past or future

Similar:

far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)

 Context examples 

Four tall girls arose from different tables, and going round, gathered the books and removed them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A drug used alone or with dabrafenib to treat melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery or has spread to other parts of the body.

(Mekinist, NCI Dictionary)

The task is vital because if chemicals are not removed in a timely fashion, they can stimulate neurons in unexpected ways, disrupting normal brain function.

(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)

In all cases, they removed the devices after 24 hours.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The side chain carbon of serine is removed to create glycine, which has only hydrogen as its side chain.

(Biosynthesis of Glycine and Serine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

We now know of twenty-one boxes having been removed, and if it be that several were taken in any of these removals we may be able to trace them all.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A small volume of blood removed for testing or storage.

(Blood Sample, NCI Thesaurus)

When all metastases are removed, it is called a complete metastasectomy.

(Metastasectomy, NCI Dictionary)

The brightest glow was instantly spread over Isabella's features, all care and anxiety seemed removed, her spirits became almost too high for control, and she called herself without scruple the happiest of mortals.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The wire is removed when a biopsy is done.

(Needle localization, NCI Dictionary)