removed
Americanadjective
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remote; separate; not connected with; distinct from.
- Synonyms:
- apart, solitary, isolated, abstracted, withdrawn
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distant by a given number of degrees of descent or kinship.
A first cousin once removed is the child of one's first cousin or the first cousin of one’s parent.
The grandchildren of one's first cousin are one's first cousins twice removed.
adjective
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separated by distance or abstract distinction
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(postpositive) separated by a degree of descent or kinship
the child of a person's first cousin is his first cousin once removed
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Etymology
Origin of removed
Explanation
A person who is described as removed is acting emotionally distant, like he or she has been taken away. You can also use removed to mean being far away in time or space from something else, as in "the house was far removed from the city," or "online dictionaries are far removed from what students had available in my day." And finally, if someone is separated by several steps in descent from you, they are removed, as in little Johnny, your twelfth cousin three times removed from Little Rock.
Vocabulary lists containing removed
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The Articles of Confederation (1777)
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Example Sentences
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When they restored the cellular cleanup process or removed synuclein protein in their experiments, the neurons were protected from damage.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Ivory Coast were also removed from the list, the organisation said after a plenary meeting.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The mayor, who, like Bass, had served in the California state Assembly and Congress was Sam Yorty, four years removed from a disastrous response to the Watts riots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Perhaps someday his own people will have the courage to have him removed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Quick as a wink, she removed a hairpin and used it to secure the broken latch.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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