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amoves

amoves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of amove.

Meaning of amove

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.

Questions about amoves

What is amoves the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Amoves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of amove.

Words near amoves in the dictionary

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

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