removed
- 1Past tense and past participle of remove. Use it when something was taken away earlier.
She removed her muddy boots at the front door.
The crew removed the fallen branches from the road.
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- 2Set apart from something else by distance, time, or how different it is.
Like standing on a quiet hill, far away from the busy town below.
He felt removed from the noise once he closed the door.
Their old way of life seems far removed from ours today.
Similardistant, detached, remote, separate, isolated
Oppositeconnected, involved, close
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- 3Belonging to a different generation in a family, either older or younger.
Like family members who sit on different steps of the same staircase.
My aunt's grandchild is my cousin twice removed.
He called her his cousin once removed at the reunion.
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removed is a form of remove
remove, verb: To take something away from where it is and put it somewhere else. Full entry
- Spelling
- remove → removed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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