Leave vs. Remove — What's the Difference?

Go away from

Take (something) away or off from the position occupied

Allow or cause to remain

Abolish or get rid of

Cause (someone or something) to be in a particular state or position

Be distant from

(of a plant) put out new leaves

Separated by a particular number of steps of descent

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

A degree of remoteness or separation

Time when one has permission to be absent from work or from duty in the armed forces

A form or division in some British schools

Permission

To move from a place or position occupied

To go out of or away from

To transfer or convey from one place to another

To go without taking or removing

To take off

To omit or exclude

To take away; withdraw

To have as a result, consequence, or remainder

To do away with; eliminate

To cause or allow to be or remain in a specified state

To dismiss from an office or position.

To have remaining after death

To change one's place of residence or business; move

To bequeath

To go away; depart.

To give over to another to control or act on

To be removable

To abandon or forsake

The act of removing; removal.

To remove oneself from association with or participation in

Distance or degree of separation or remoteness

To give or deposit, as for use or information, upon one's departure or in one's absence

(transitive) To delete.

To cause or permit to be or remain

(transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.

(Nonstandard) To allow or permit; let.

To replace a dish within a course.

To set out or depart; go

(transitive) To murder.

To put forth foliage; leaf.

To dismiss a batsman.

Permission to do something.

(transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

An act of departing; a farewell

To depart, leave.

See leave of absence.

(intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.

To have a consequence or remnant.

To dismiss or discharge from office.

(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

The act of removing something.

To cause, to result in.

A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.

(transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.

(British) at some public schools A division of the school, especially the form prior to last

To depart; to separate from.

A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")

To let be or do without interference.

Distance in time or space; interval.

(transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.

Emotional distance or indifference.

(transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).

(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.

(intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

To transfer something.

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

(transitive) To transfer possession of after death.

To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.

(transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.

To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

(transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.

To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.

To remain (behind); to stay.

The act of removing; a removal.

To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; - in the United States usually called a move.

(transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

The state of being removed.

To produce leaves or foliage.

That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.

(obsolete) To raise; to levy.

The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.

(cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.

The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

(billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).

Degree of figurative distance or separation;

Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract;

Permission.

Remove from a position or an office

(dated) Farewell, departure.

Dispose of;

To send out leaves; to leaf; - often with out.

Cause to leave;

To raise; to levy.

Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes;

To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.

Go away or leave;

To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.

Kill intentionally and with premeditation;

To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.

Get rid of something abstract;

To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.

To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.

To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit - with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.

To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.

To cause to be; - followed by an adjective or adverb describing a state or condition; as, the losses due to fire leave me penniless; The cost of defending himself left Bill Clinton with a mountain of lawyers' bills.

To depart; to set out.

To cease; to desist; to leave off.

Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; - used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.

The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty;

Permission to do something;

The act of departing politely;

Go away from a place;

Go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness;

Act or be so as to become in a specified state;

Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking;

Move out of or depart from;

Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain;

Result in;

Remove oneself from an association with or participation in;

Put into the care or protection of someone;

Leave or give by will after one's death;

Have left or have as a remainder;

Be survived by after one's death;

Tell or deposit (information) knowledge;

Leave behind unintentionally;