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- apart, solitary, isolated, abstracted, withdrawn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
Other Word Forms
- removedly adverb
- removedness noun
- unremoved adjective
Etymology
Origin of removed
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, he added, Iranian attacks on Gulf states have removed any embarrassment that these monarchies had in cooperating with the U.S. military campaign.
She will not do that, though she is seeking to alter how it is interpreted to allow more asylum seekers to be removed.
From BBC
In 2023, doctors in Taiwan removed more than 300 kidney stones from a 20 year old woman who had reportedly been drinking bubble tea instead of water.
From Science Daily
Once he realized Lindo and Jordan heard that offensive tic, he removed himself from the auditorium.
From Salon
The doctor declined to prescribe hormone replacement therapies, an increasingly popular treatment after the Food and Drug Administration removed black-box warnings of cardiovascular and cancer risks.
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