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gotten moving

gotten moving is the past participle of get moving.

Meaning of get moving

Verb

get moving (third-person singular simple present gets moving, present participle getting moving, simple past got moving, past participle (UK) got moving or (US) gotten moving)

  1. (idiomatic) To start hurrying to undertake a task.
    • We should get moving with the props if we want this play ready on time.

Questions about gotten moving

What is gotten moving the past participle of?
Gotten moving is the past participle of get moving.

Words near gotten moving in the dictionary

  1. gotten lucky
  2. gotten Mario Karted
  3. gotten married
  4. gotten medieval
  5. gotten misty
  6. gotten moving
  7. gotten nowhere fast
  8. gotten off
  9. gotten off lightly
  10. gotten off on
  11. gotten off on the right foot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten moving (page history and authors); get moving (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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