| means | (verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
take away, take, remove, withdraw |
| means | (verb) remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"
delete, cancel |
| means | (verb) eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"
exhaust, release, discharge, eject, expel |
| means | (verb) remove the nucleus from (a cell)
enucleate |
| means | (verb) clear out the chest and lungs; "This drug expectorates quickly"
expectorate, drive out, clear out |
| means | (verb) take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
take out, take away |
| means | (verb) remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"
dislodge, free |
| means | (verb) remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover
enucleate |
| means | (verb) remove by drawing or pulling; "She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth"; "draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese"
pull off, draw off, draw away |
| means | (verb) remove from its packing; "unpack the presents"
take out, unpack |
| means | (verb) remove as if by suction; "aspirate the wound"
draw out, aspirate, suck out |
| means | (verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
move, displace |
| means | (verb) take away or remove; "Take that weight off me!"
take off |
| means | (verb) remove something from a container or an enclosed space
take out |
| means | (verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"
pull out, take out, get out, pull, draw |
| means | (verb) take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from the barrel"
take out, draw |
| means | (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
eliminate |
| means | (verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
take out, pull out, draw out, pull, pull up, extract |
| means | (verb) remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"
withdraw, draw, take out, draw off |
| means | (verb) remove a constituent from a liquid
strip |
| means | (verb) take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
strip, deprive, divest |
| means | (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil"
strip, leach |
| means | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
strip, divest, disinvest, undress |
| means | (verb) strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
strip |
| means | (verb) remove the surface from; "strip wood"
strip |
| means | (verb) take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper"
strip, dismantle |
| means | (verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
clean, strip |
| means | (verb) move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
dislocate, slip, luxate, splay |
| means | (verb) get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
cast off, throw, drop, shed, throw away, throw off, shake off, cast |
| means | (verb) take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace"
conduct, direct, take, guide, lead |
| means | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
sick, cat, vomit, spue, spew, purge, disgorge, puke, barf, honk, upchuck, retch, throw up, regorge, regurgitate, cast, be sick, chuck, vomit up |
| means | (verb) force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country"
kick out, throw out, expel |
| means | (verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war"
displace |
| means | (verb) put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game"
eject, turn out, boot out, exclude, chuck out, turf out |
| means | (verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"
dispel, drive away, chase away, drive out, drive off, run off, turn back |
| means | (verb) change place or direction; "Shift one's position"
shift, reposition, dislodge |
| means | (verb) expel (gases or odors)
emit, breathe, pass off |
| means | (verb) force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."
drive out, rouse, rout out, force out |
| means | (verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point"
take, bring, convey |
| means | (verb) drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
hit, strike |
| means | (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area"
bring, wreak, work, play, make for |
| means | (verb) let fall to the ground; "Don't drop the dishes"
drop |
| means | (verb) eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
eliminate, excrete, pass, egest |
| means | (verb) force from a place or position; "The committee winkled out the unqualified candidates"
winkle out |
| means | (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate"
spew out, spew, eruct |
| means | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
derive, educe |
| means | (verb) cause to withdraw; "We pulled this firm off the project because they overcharged"
pull off |
| means | (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
fire, give the sack, can, give notice, force out, terminate, send away, dismiss, give the axe, sack, displace |
| means | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
kindle, elicit, arouse, evoke, raise, provoke, enkindle, fire |
| means | (verb) extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
extract, distill, distil |
| means | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation
cypher, cipher, calculate, figure, compute, reckon, work out |
| means | (verb) remove from a list; "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"
strike off, mark, strike out, cross off, cross out |
| means | (verb) release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores"
ooze out, transude, ooze, exudate, exude |
| means | (verb) terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
eliminate, extinguish, do away with, get rid of |
| means | (verb) produce by ignition or a blow; "strike fire from the flintstone"; "strike a match"
strike |
| means | (verb) remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"
throw out, oust, drum out, expel, boot out, kick out |
| means | (verb) form or shape by forcing through an opening; "extrude steel"
extrude, squeeze out |
| means | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body
evacuate, empty, void |
| means | (verb) put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
trigger, spark off, actuate, trigger off, touch off, activate, spark, set off, trip |
| means | (verb) terminate an association with; "drop him from the Republican ticket"
drop |
| means | (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"
erase, delete |
| means | (verb) remove; "He doffed his hat"
doff |
| means | (verb) put into print; "The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be printed"
print, publish |
| means | (verb) remove from a position or an office
remove |