Moves vs Amoves - What's the difference?
moves | amoves |
(pluralonly) A good ability to dance.
(move)
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(amove)
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(obsolete) To set in motion; to stir up, excite.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
To remove (a person or thing) from a position.
(legal) To dismiss from an office or station.
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As verbs the difference between moves and amoves
is that moves is third-person singular of move while amoves is third-person singular of amove.As a noun moves
is plural of lang=en.moves
English
Noun
(head)- Check out the guy on the dancefloor, he's got seriously good moves .
Verb
(head)amoves
English
Verb
(head)amove
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) amover.Verb
(amov)- Vp-rose Duessa from her resting place, / And to the Paynims lodging comes with silent pace [...] And him amoues with speaches seeming fit [...].