* otherwise, this method returns false.
   */
  boolean remove(K key, long value) {
    return map.remove(key, value);
  }

  /**
   * Atomically remove {@code key} from the map iff its associated value is 0.
   *
   * @since 20.0
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  public boolean removeIfZero(K key) {
    return remove(key, 0);
  }

  /**

   * removeFrom.removeIf(predicate)} instead.
   *
   * @param removeFrom the iterable to (potentially) remove elements from
   * @param predicate a predicate that determines whether an element should be removed
   * @return {@code true} if any elements were removed from the iterable
   * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if the iterable does not support {@code remove()}.
   * @since 2.0
   */

    E x = items[takeIndex];
    items[takeIndex] = null;
    takeIndex = inc(takeIndex);
    --count;
    return x;
  }

  /**
   * Utility for remove and iterator.remove: Delete item at position i. Call only when occupying
   * monitor.
   */
  void removeAt(int i) {
    final E[] items = this.items;
    // if removing front item, just advance
    if (i == takeIndex) {
      items[takeIndex] = null;

    }
  }

  // Returned from removeAt() to iterator.remove()
  static class MoveDesc<E> {
    final E toTrickle;
    final E replaced;

    MoveDesc(E toTrickle, E replaced) {
      this.toTrickle = toTrickle;
      this.replaced = replaced;
    }
  }

  /** Removes and returns the value at {@code index}. */
  private E removeAndGet(int index) {

    }
  }

  // Returned from removeAt() to iterator.remove()
  static class MoveDesc<E> {
    final E toTrickle;
    final E replaced;

    MoveDesc(E toTrickle, E replaced) {
      this.toTrickle = toTrickle;
      this.replaced = replaced;
    }
  }

  /** Removes and returns the value at {@code index}. */
  private E removeAndGet(int index) {

        // only remove after setting to zero, to avoid concurrent updates
        map.remove(key, atomic);
        // succeed even if the remove fails, since the value was already adjusted
        return oldValue;
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * If {@code (key, value)} is currently in the map, this method removes it and returns true;
   * otherwise, this method returns false.

    }
  }

  /**
   * Removes a number of occurrences of the specified element from this multiset. If the multiset
   * contains fewer than this number of occurrences to begin with, all occurrences will be removed.
   *
   * @param element the element whose occurrences should be removed
   * @param occurrences the number of occurrences of the element to remove

   *
   * <p>This method refines {@link Collection#remove} to further specify that it <b>may not</b>
   * throw an exception in response to {@code element} being null or of the wrong type.
   *
   * <p>To both remove the element and obtain the previous count of that element, use {@link
   * #remove(Object, int) remove}{@code (element, 1)} instead.
   *
   * @param element the element to remove one occurrence of

   *
   * <p>This method refines {@link Collection#remove} to further specify that it <b>may not</b>
   * throw an exception in response to {@code element} being null or of the wrong type.
   *
   * <p>To both remove the element and obtain the previous count of that element, use {@link
   * #remove(Object, int) remove}{@code (element, 1)} instead.
   *
   * @param element the element to remove one occurrence of

    assertTrue("Could not remove larry", mmHeap.remove("larry"));
    assertEquals(6, mmHeap.size());
    assertFalse("heap contains larry which has been removed", mmHeap.contains("larry"));
    assertTrue("heap does not contain sergey", mmHeap.contains("sergey"));
    assertTrue("Could not remove larry", mmHeap.removeAll(Lists.newArrayList("sergey", "eric")));