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MOVE BACK AND FORTH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Move in one direction and then into the opposite direction
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "move back and forth" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "move back and forth"):
rock; shake; sway (move back and forth or sideways)
sway; swing (move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner)
flicker; flitter; flutter; quiver; waver (move back and forth very rapidly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP