removed means slowed, inhibited. One common use is a bread removeder, which a temperature controlled box you put dough in to slow the fermentation process. removed was also used scientifically to describe someone with an intellectual disability. While this sort of conception is out dated, they would describe someone’s disability in terms of “having the mind of a 9 year old”, so the relationship between the disability and time/slowed progress seemed really straightforward. At some point, saying a person was removed transformed from being a scientific designation without prejudice to an insult for intellectually capable people who had done something foolish, and then eventually any misbegotten situation would be called removed. There has been a movement both to use better language for the disabled community (hence me using the term intellectual disability) as well as stop using the word removed as a pejorative.