1. To take away or eliminate the concluding part of something, such as a word, text, story, or film
The editor decided to remove the ending of the novel to make it more ambiguous.
O editor decidiu remover o final do romance para deixá-lo mais ambíguo.
2. In linguistics, to strip a suffix or morpheme from a word
To remove the ending '-ing' from 'running' gives you 'runn'.
Para remover o final '-ing' de 'running' você obtém 'runn'.