(Alternate spelling: bowdlerise)
1. Expurgate, especially too strictly.
2. To edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; SYN. bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten.
1. To remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; SYN. displace, bump.
2. To remove or force out from a position; SYN. free.
1. To kill in large numbers; SYN. annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off.
2. To terminate or take out; SYN. get rid of, do away with.
1. To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge.
2. To purify or revise; to censor; remove objectionable portions from; purify.
1. To remove from a position or an office.
2. To remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc.; or remove something abstract; SYN. take, take away.
3. To shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; SYN. transfer.
1. To mimic or imitate, esp. in an amusing or satirical manner
2. To prove fatal
3. To remove clothes
4. To take away or remove,
5. To take off from the ground, as of an aircraft or balloon; SYN. lift off.
6. To take time off from work; stop working temporarily; SYN. take time off.
When an airplane leaves the ground and flies up into the air, it takes off.
When a business or other organized activity becomes very successful, it takes off.
1. To cause to leave; SYN. move out, remove.
2. To obtain by legal of official process
3. To purchase prepared food to be eaten at home; SYN. buy food.
4. To remove something from a container or an enclosed space.
1. To disconnect an electrical appliances by removing the power source (usually at the end of a cord); SYN. disconnect.
2. Said of people: to allow to die by disconnecting or discontinuing all artificial means of life support.