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Antonyms for moving

Grammar : Adj
Spell : moo-ving
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmu vɪŋ

Definition of moving

Origin :
  • late 13c., from Anglo-French mover, Old French movoir "to move, get moving, set out; set in motion; introduce" (Modern French mouvoir), from Latin movere "move, set in motion; remove; disturb" (past participle motus, frequentative motare), from PIE root *meue- "to push away" (cf. Sanskrit kama-muta "moved by love" and probably mivati "pushes, moves;" Lithuanian mauti "push on;" Greek ameusasthai "to surpass," amyno "push away").
  • Intransitive sense developed in Old French and came thence to English, though it now is rare in French. Meaning "to affect with emotion" is from c.1300; that of "to prompt or impel toward some action" is from late 14c. Sense of "to change one's place of residence" is from 1707. Meaning "to propose (something) in an assembly, etc.," is first attested mid-15c. Related: Moved; moving.
  • adj affecting, exciting
  • adj mobile
Example sentences :
  • He was moving leisurely, keeping his horse at the cattle pony's lope.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Firing from ambush and moving from place to place, he would seem more than one man.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • A phantom of him moving silent about the house fill the part as well!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • When he stood behind her, silent and not moving, she turned slowly about and faced him.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Sidney could hear her moving about with flat, inelastic steps.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Moving from enclosure to enclosure of box, she came, before she knew it, to the house itself.
  • Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
  • For at first she only perceived that a dim shadow was moving under the moonlight.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • In the other case the moving and steering was done by turning a peg.
  • Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • Of course this could be prevented by moving the camp out of range of this hill.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
  • He could hear Cazi Moto moving about, arranging clothes and equipment.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

Synonyms for moving

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