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I have one CMS which was revamped & all the urls are changed. But in google search it is showing all old urls which are not active now. How can i remove these indexed pages from the google search. Is there any way to do this from webmaster tool?

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You can also put a redirect on the page(s) and/or directories, with a R=301 which means a permanent redirect. Googlebot will adhere to that.

Also @JC's link above shows that eventually the old pages will fall off page rank (only took a couple of days with a site that gets ~250,000 hits a day).

I've successfully seen/done both of these.