emove

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verb

To stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion.

OriginOld French esmouvoir →
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Meanings

verbemove (third-person singular simple present emoves, present participle emoving, simple past and past participle emoved)

present singular third person emoves · participle present emoving · participle past emoved · past emoved

  1. archaicpoetictransitiveTo stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion.

    What brought you to this Seat of Peace and Love? While with kind Nature, here amid the Grove, We pass’d the harmless Sabbath of our Time, What to disturb it could, fell Men, emove Your barbarous Hearts? Is Happiness a Crime?

    1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, L:LXVI

Origin

  1. Old Frenchesmouvoir
  2. Englishemove

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French esmouvoir, from classical Latin ēmoveō; see emotion.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with emove

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APA

emove. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emove

MLA

“emove.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emove. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emove,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emove.

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