mover

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to move (to cause to change place or posture)
  2. (transitive) to shake (e.g. to shake one's head, to shake one's tail feather)
  3. (transitive) to wiggle (e.g. one's ears, fingers, nose, toes)
  4. (transitive) to wag (e.g., an animal's tail wagging)
  5. (transitive) to move to, to cause to
  6. (transitive) to swing (e.g. a sword, a bat, a tennis racket, one's tail)
  7. (reflexive) to move (to change place or posture)
  8. (reflexive) to shift
  9. (reflexive) to move around, to get around, to drift (i.e. make one's way about a place, to navigate or travel)
  10. (reflexive) to budge, to stir, to twitch, to fidget, to move (in an agitated manner)
  11. (reflexive) to get a move on (idiom)
  12. (reflexive) to be moved (by a performance, etc.)

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
mo‧ver
Pronounced as (IPA)
/moˈbeɾ/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mover, from Latin movēre. Compare English move.

Cognate with English
English
move

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