move – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to move towards sth
Participle: moved towards sth
Gerund: moving towards sth

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	move towards sth
we	Let's move towards sth
you	move towards sth

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to move from one place to another

shift

to change position from one place to another

budge, interchange, rearrange, redistribute, relocate, shift, stir, transfer, travel

to encourage or persuade into action; to bring about a reaction

abet, actuate, bring about, encourage, engender, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invoke, motivate, prompt, provoke, rouse, set off, spur, stir, stir up, urge, whip up

progress

advance, budge, proceed, remove, stir, act

arouse

agitate, dislocate, disturb, excite, drive, propel, rouse, shake

influence

impress, affect, touch

propose

submit, introduce, recommend, suggest

Antonyms

to render motionless; to cause something to stop moving

accelerate, continue, immobilize

to cease moving; to come to a stand or standstill

accelerate, continue, go, proceed, stop

progress

retrogression, relapse, recession, decline

arouse

calm, quiet, pacify, assuage

influence

ineffectiveness, impotence, futility, incapacity

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1275, from Anglo-Fr. movir (O.Fr. moveir), from L. movere "move, set in motion" (pp. motus, freq. motare), from PIE base *meue- (cf., Skt. kama-muta "moved by love" and probably mivati "pushes, moves;" Lith. mauti "push on;" Gk. ameusasthai "to surpass," amyno "push away"). Meaning "to affect with emotion" is from c.1300; that of "to prompt or impel toward some action" is from c.1380. Sense of "to change one's place of residence" is from 1707. Meaning "to propose (something) in an assembly, etc.," is first attested 1452. The noun in the gaming sense is from 1656. Phrase on the move "in the process of going from one place to another" is from 1796; get a move on "hurry up" is Amer.Eng. colloquial from 1888. A moveable feast (1430) is one in the Church calendar which, though always on the same day of the week, varies its date from year to year.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
6. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
7. Proto-Italic *moweō
8. Latin movēre
9. Old Northern French moverbor.
10. Middle English moven
11. English move
12. From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian. See also Old English hrēran. See: Latin 'moveō', Lithuanian 'mauti', Sanskrit 'मीवति'.

Verbs referencing "move"

Esperanto movi, Spanish mover, Dutch moven, Ido movar.

Sample Sentences