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MOVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
Example:
very touched by the stranger's kindness
Synonyms:
affected; moved; stirred; touched
Classified under:
Similar:
sick (deeply affected by a strong feeling)
Also:
affected (acted upon; influenced)
emotional (of more than usual emotion)
Antonym:
unmoved (emotionally unmoved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb move
Context examples:
It measures how much air the lungs can hold and how quickly air is moved into and out of the lungs.
(Lung function test, NCI Dictionary)
Imagine if parts of your body moved when you didn't want them to.
(Movement Disorders, NIH)
The needle may be twirled, moved up and down at different speeds and depths, heated, or charged with a low electric current.
(Needling, NCI Dictionary)
The doctor never so much as moved.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The chairs had been moved back against the walls, but all else was as it had been the night before.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Among them moved Aylward and other of the older soldiers, with a few whispered words of precept here and of warning there.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The patient lays on a table and is moved through a donut-shaped machine.
(Helical tomotherapy, NCI Dictionary)
A solution or suspension taken orally and moved around the back of the throat by tilting the head back and forcing air from the lungs through the solution.
(Gargle Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
There was no pause of the realities wherein he moved.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
These considerations moved me to hasten my departure somewhat sooner than I intended; to which the court, impatient to have me gone, very readily contributed.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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