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amove

amove verb: to set in motion; to stir up, excite.

Verb (1)

amove (third-person singular simple present amoves, present participle amoving, simple past and past participle amoved)

  1. (obsolete) To set in motion; to stir up, excite.
    • Vp-rose Duessa from her resting place, / And to the Paynims lodging comes with silent pace […] And him amoues with speaches seeming fit […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb (2)

amove (third-person singular simple present amoves, present participle amoving, simple past and past participle amoved)

  1. (obsolete) To remove.
    • Hence claws, horns, hoofs they use the pinching ill t' amove1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC
  2. (archaic, historical) To dismiss from an office or station.
    • The Tower. To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands which belonged to Thomas Tracy in that bailiwick, restoring the issues thereof, and to inform the king if there is any reason why he should not do this, as it was lately found by inquisition...1898, “5 April 1336”, in Calendar of the Charter Rolls, 10 Edward III, 1333-1337, Membrane 36, pages 560-1.

Forms of amove

third-person singular presentamoves
present participleamoving
past participleamoved
pastamoved

Origin of amove

From Middle English amoven, ameven (“to excite”), from Old French amover (“to excite”).

Borrowed from Latin amoveō (“to remove”).

Words formed from amove

Questions about amove

What does amove mean?
Amove means to set in motion; to stir up, excite.
What part of speech is amove?
Amove is a verb.
What is the past tense of amove?
The past tense of amove is amoved.

Words near amove in the dictionary

  1. Amourouxes
  2. amours
  3. amovability
  4. amovable
  5. amoval
  6. amove
  7. amoved
  8. amoves
  9. amoving
  10. amox-clav
  11. amox/clav

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