How to spell remove

hear itre·move/rɪ'muv/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To take something away from a place.

In a sentence: Please remove your shoes before entering the house.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as remuve or remoove.

Same family: removal, removed, removing, movement, replace. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Remove comes from Latin via Old French: from Latin 'removere' meaning 'to move back' or 'take away' (re- 'back' + movere 'to move'). Over time, English kept both the idea of physically taking something away and the more abstract sense of getting rid of something.

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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