emmove

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verb

To move; to rouse or excite.

Scrabble 13
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Meanings

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

present singular third person emmoves · participle present emmoving · participle past emmoved · past emmoved

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo 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

Origin

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

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APA

emmove. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emmove

MLA

“emmove.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emmove. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emmove,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emmove.

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