How to animate any click event

Question

I have written this code to remove an element now I want give any effect to it using jQuery

where I can add animate function to it or any other

  $(".close-btn").each(function(element){
    $(this).on('click', function(){
      $(this).closest('div.card').remove();
    }); 
  });
}

I have Tried do it like this

$(this).closest('div.card').hide('slow').remove();

but this didn't worked