- remove (v.)
- c.1300, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removere "move back or away," from re- "back, away" (see re-) + movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Related: Removed; removing. The noun is first recorded 1550s, "act of removing;" sense of "space or interval by which one thing is distant from another" is attested from 1620s.