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emmove

emmove verb: to move; to rouse or excite.

Verb

emmove (third-person singular simple present emmoves, present participle emmoving, simple past and past participle emmoved)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To move; to rouse or excite.
    • Yet the bold Britonesse was nought ydred, / Though much emmov'd, but stedfast still persevered.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of emmove

third-person singular presentemmoves
present participleemmoving
past participleemmoved
pastemmoved

Origin of emmove

For emove: compare French émouvoir, Latin emovere. See emotion.

Questions about emmove

What does emmove mean?
Emmove means to move; to rouse or excite.
What part of speech is emmove?
Emmove is a verb.
What is the past tense of emmove?
The past tense of emmove is emmoved.

Words near emmove in the dictionary

  1. Emmons
  2. Emmons County
  3. Emmonses
  4. emmonsite
  5. Emmott
  6. emmove
  7. emmoved
  8. emmoves
  9. emmoving
  10. EMMPRIN
  11. EMMPRINs

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