Usually means: Takes away or eliminates something.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word removes:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. removes: Merriam-Webster
  2. removes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. removes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Removes, removes: Wordnik
  5. removes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. removes: Wiktionary
  7. removes: Dictionary.com
  8. removes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. removes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. removes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. removes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. removes: Encyclopedia

(Note: See remove as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (remove)

verb:  (transitive) To delete.
verb:  (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
verb:  (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
verb:  (transitive) To murder.
verb:  (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
verb:  (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, now rare) To depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To change one's residence or place of business; to move.
verb:  To dismiss or discharge from office.
noun:  The act of removing something.
noun:  (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
noun:  (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
noun:  A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
noun:  Distance in time or space; interval.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
noun:  (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
noun:  The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
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