Meanings
present singular third person commoves · participle present commoving · participle past commoved · past commoved
- datedtransitiveTo move violently; to agitate, excite or rouse
Hereupon Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: "Learning, quotha!" said he; "I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!"
1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
Synonyms & antonyms
verbcause to be agitated, excited, or roused
verbchange the arrangement or position of
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchcommovoir
- Middle Englishcommoeven
- Englishcommove
From Middle English commoeven, from Old French commovoir.
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