Synonyms of removing

removing

verb

present participle of remove

1

as in stripping

to rid oneself of (a garment)

I removed my coat as soon as I got inside

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stripping
• shedding
• peeling (off)
• putting off
• undressing
• doffing
• taking off
• kicking (off)
• dousing
• shrugging off
• husking
• disrobing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• donning
• throwing (on)
• slipping (into)
• wearing
• putting on
• clothing
• dressing
• rigging
• arraying
• suiting
• robing
• garbing
• attiring
• appareling
• bedecking

2

as in withdrawing

to take away from a place or position

he carefully removed the old manuscript from the shelf

Synonyms & Similar Words

• withdrawing
• pulling
• extracting
• drawing
• taking out
• dislodging
• clearing
• moving
• shifting
• cutting
• abstracting
• transferring
• displacing
• drawing off
• drawing out
• demounting
• transposing
• disturbing
• dislocating
• budging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• putting
• placing
• positioning
• mounting
• securing
• fixing
• setting
• clamping
• anchoring
• embedding
• hitching
• rooting
• implanting
• sticking
• mooring
• lodging
• setting up
• situating
• entrenching
• siting
• ingraining

3

as in relocating

to change the place or position of

please remove that chair to the other room

Synonyms & Similar Words

• relocating
• transferring
• moving
• shifting
• transporting
• replacing
• displacing
• disturbing
• repositioning
• transposing
• carrying
• hauling
• conveying
• dislocating
• transmitting
• budging
• transplanting
• driving
• altering
• modifying
• supplanting
• lugging
• superseding
• carting
• toting
• revising
• reworking
• remaking
• varying
• revamping
• bearing
• remodeling
• redoing
• making over
• refashioning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• securing
• fixing
• stabilizing
• setting
• freezing
• anchoring
• mooring
• embedding
• implanting
• rooting
• lodging
• entrenching
• ingraining

4

as in dismissing

to let go from office, service, or employment

voters removed the racist selectman from office the first chance they got

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dismissing
• sacking
• retiring
• releasing
• firing
• terminating
• discharging
• axing
• bouncing
• mustering out
• canning
• turning off
• trimming
• separating
• pink-slipping
• downsizing
• showing (someone) the door
• cashiering
• sending packing
• laying off
• excessing
• unseating
• furloughing
• kicking out
• drumming (out)
• booting (out)
• chucking (out)
• throwing out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• retaining
• employing
• hiring
• engaging
• keeping
• signing (up or on)
• taking on
• contracting
• recruiting
• rehiring
• reemploying
• subcontracting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of removing

The platform offered another reason, however, for removing Polson's articles and blocking his accounts from further submissions. — Todd Wallack The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026

With the Democrats’ takeover of Congress, time has run out on eliminating the Department of Education—not that this was possible without removing the Senate filibuster—or making any other significant legislative changes. — Ilya Shapiro, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026

By 2020, the couple was ready to tackle removing the pool, landscaping the slope and creating zones in the flat area that would be tied together through low-water and native plants. — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026

How to Dispose of Dead Annuals After removing dead annuals from the garden, Gifford says healthy annuals can go in your compost pile. — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 7 Nov. 2026

The achievement is significant because diamond offers a combination of properties that could address some of the challenges facing advanced electronics, particularly the growing difficulty of removing heat from high-performance processors. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026

This may mean removing an abusive parent as their guardian and establishing another relative or foster parent in place of the parent. — Sasha Allen, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026

Even a mandate as simple as removing racist or demeaning school mascots has depended more on districts’ voluntary compliance than force. — David Bloomfield, New York Daily News, 1 Nov. 2026

Soil removal is effective at removing contaminants but is quite expensive. — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026