remove

To take something away from a place or out of something.

• Please remove your shoes.
• She removed the label from the jar.
• Can you remove this stain?

How to use it: remove something from something (Remove the cake from the oven.)

Similar words: take away, take out

Common phrases: remove the lid, remove a stain, remove from something

To make someone leave their job or position of power.

• The board removed the manager.
• He was removed from office last year.
• They voted to remove her as chairman.

How to use it: remove someone from something (The board removed him from his post.); remove someone as something (They removed her as team captain.)

Similar words: dismiss, oust

Opposites: appoint

Common phrases: remove from office, remove from power, remove someone as