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move around

move around verb: to relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long.

Verb

move around (third-person singular simple present moves around, present participle moving around, simple past and past participle moved around)

  1. (intransitive) To relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long.
    • My dad was in the military, so we used to move around.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see move, around.

Forms of move around

third-person singular presentmoves around
present participlemoving around
past participlemoved around
pastmoved around

Questions about move around

What does move around mean?
Move around means to relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long.
What part of speech is move around?
Move around is a verb.
What is the past tense of move around?
The past tense of move around is moved around.

Words near move around in the dictionary

  1. move a finger
  2. move about
  3. move ahead
  4. move along
  5. move an inch
  6. move around
  7. move away
  8. move back
  9. move back in
  10. move down
  11. move down a notch

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