--- title: M — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 47 description: The 1043 words of the English dictionary under M, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/page/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / M # M — The English dictionary · page 47 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* A person who feels or shows sadness because someone has died, especially a person at a funeral.[↗](../../mourner/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Hundreds of mourners came to the funeral.[↗](../../mourner/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The mourners stood quietly by the grave.[↗](../../mourner/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A mourner laid a bunch of white flowers.[↗](../../mourner/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The church was full of mourners.[↗](../../mourner/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Mourners shared happy memories of their grandad.[↗](../../mourner/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The mourners walked slowly behind the coffin.[↗](../../mourner/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Here the young chief mourner came to receive him.[↗](../../mourner/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will lead him also, and requite with comforts him and his mourners.[↗](../../mourner/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.57.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mourner/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.[↗](../../mourner/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.29.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mourner/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **mournful** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Mournful means full of sorrow or sadness, showing grief.[↗](../../mournful/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Why are you so mournful? she asks.[↗](../../mournful/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He looked very mournful after the game.[↗](../../mournful/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A mournful wind blew over the moor.[↗](../../mournful/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother; I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother.[↗](../../mournful/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.35.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mournful/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **mournfully** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Mournfully means in a sad, sorrowful way, as if grieving.[↗](../../mournfully/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* "Died!" mournfully repeated the old woman.[↗](../../mournfully/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · "She does not see me yet," he thought mournfully.[↗](../../mournfully/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · "That is the King," he said mournfully.[↗](../../mournfully/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Ye have said: 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked mournfully because of the LORD of hosts?[↗](../../mournfully/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets MAL.3.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mournfully/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **mourning** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Great sadness shown after someone dies.[↗](../../mourning/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The time when people show sadness after a death, often with special customs or black clothes: a period of mourning.[↗](../../mourning/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb form) -ing form of «mourn»: they are mourning their grandad.[↗](../../mourning/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The whole town was in mourning after the accident.[↗](../../mourning/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · They wore black as a sign of mourning.[↗](../../mourning/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The country held a day of mourning.[↗](../../mourning/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She is still mourning her old cat.[↗](../../mourning/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The flags flew at half-mast for mourning.[↗](../../mourning/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · It is natural to feel sad when you are mourning someone.[↗](../../mourning/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We were quiet out of respect for the mourning family.[↗](../../mourning/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · There was great mourning throughout the land.[↗](../../mourning/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.'[↗](../../mourning/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.27.41, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mourning/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.[↗](../../mourning/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.34.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mourning/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they wailed with a very great and sore wailing; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.[↗](../../mourning/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.50.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mourning/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?'[↗](../../mourning/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.42.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mourning/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?[↗](../../mourning/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.43.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mourning/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · In those days I Daniel was mourning three whole weeks.[↗](../../mourning/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings DAN.10.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mourning/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **mouse** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A mouse is a very small animal with a long thin tail, round ears and sharp teeth.[↗](../../mouse/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A computer mouse is a small tool you move by hand to point and click on a screen.[↗](../../mouse/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A shy, quiet person is sometimes called a mouse.[↗](../../mouse/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The mouse jumped 12 inches less than the frog.[↗](../../mouse/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · How far did the mouse jump?[↗](../../mouse/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · There are 6 mice in the barn.[↗](../../mouse/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How much farther did the grasshopper jump than the mouse?[↗](../../mouse/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The mouse ate some cheese.[↗](../../mouse/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Click the mouse to open the file.[↗](../../mouse/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She was as quiet as a mouse.[↗](../../mouse/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Our cat chased a mouse into the garden.[↗](../../mouse/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · A mouse is a mammal.[↗](../../mouse/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The story is about a brave little mouse.[↗](../../mouse/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · "Spare me!" begged the poor Mouse.[↗](../../mouse/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And these are they which are unclean unto you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kinds, (Torah LEV.11.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mouse/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And they put the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.[↗](../../mouse/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.6.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mouse/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go unto the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the detestable thing, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.[↗](../../mouse/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.66.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mouse/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **mouser** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A mouser is a cat (or sometimes another animal) that is good at catching mice.[↗](../../mouser/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK) The Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office is the official cat at 10 Downing Street, the home of the British Prime Minister.[↗](../../mouser/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our farm cat is an excellent mouser.[↗](../../mouser/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The bakery kept a mouser to protect the flour.[↗](../../mouser/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Larry is the Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street.[↗](../../mouser/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Ships once carried mousers to catch rats and mice.[↗](../../mouser/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · That lazy cat is no mouser; the mice walk past it.[↗](../../mouser/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A mouser can catch several mice a night.[↗](../../mouser/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · "You may have her, and you will find that she is a good mouser too."[↗](../../mouser/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **moustache** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A moustache is hair that grows on a man's upper lip, between the nose and the mouth.[↗](../../moustache/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) A milk moustache is a white line of milk left on the upper lip after drinking.[↗](../../moustache/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Some animals and insects have long feelers near their mouths called moustaches.[↗](../../moustache/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Grandad has a big grey moustache.[↗](../../moustache/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The villain twirled his curly moustache.[↗](../../moustache/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · You've got a milk moustache\![↗](../../moustache/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad grew a moustache for Movember.[↗](../../moustache/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Hercule Poirot is famous for his neat moustache.[↗](../../moustache/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The walrus has a moustache of stiff whiskers.[↗](../../moustache/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · When the king had so said, the door opened of itself, and they went in, while the king gnawed his moustache in anger.[↗](../../moustache/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **mousy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (of hair) A dull light brown colour, like a mouse.[↗](../../mousy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (of a person) Quiet, shy and not easily noticed.[↗](../../mousy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Like a mouse or smelling of mice.[↗](../../mousy/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She had mousy brown hair tied in a ponytail.[↗](../../mousy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The new boy was mousy and hardly spoke.[↗](../../mousy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The old shed had a mousy smell.[↗](../../mousy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A mousy little clerk sat behind the desk.[↗](../../mousy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't call people mousy – it can hurt their feelings.[↗](../../mousy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The mousy kitten hid under the sofa.[↗](../../mousy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **mouth** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The opening in the face used for eating, speaking and breathing.[↗](../../mouth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An opening or entrance.[↗](../../mouth/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "the mouth of a cave".[↗](../../mouth/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* The place where a river flows into the sea.[↗](../../mouth/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "the river mouth".[↗](../../mouth/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* As a verb, to make the shape of words with your lips without sound.[↗](../../mouth/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Open your mouth wide.[↗](../../mouth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't talk with your mouth full.[↗](../../mouth/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Cover your mouth when you cough.[↗](../../mouth/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Never put coins in your mouth.[↗](../../mouth/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The river mouth is near the town.[↗](../../mouth/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Bats came out of the mouth of the cave.[↗](../../mouth/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The cake looked mouth-watering.[↗](../../mouth/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She mouthed "thank you" across the room.[↗](../../mouth/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Don’t open your mouth to answer.[↗](../../mouth/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the stone upon the well's mouth was great.[↗](../../mouth/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.29.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mouth/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And they said: 'We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.'[↗](../../mouth/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.24.57, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mouth/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.'[↗](../../mouth/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.4.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mouth/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Set the horn to thy mouth.[↗](../../mouth/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets HOS.8.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mouth/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · I lay my hand upon my mouth.[↗](../../mouth/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.40.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mouth/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.[↗](../../mouth/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.3.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../mouth/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **mouthful** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The amount of food or drink that fills your mouth or that you put in at one time.[↗](../../mouthful/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) A long word or name that is hard to say: «mastication» is a mouthful.[↗](../../mouthful/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) give someone a mouthful: to say rude or angry words to them (UK).[↗](../../mouthful/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Don't talk with your mouth full — swallow that mouthful first\![↗](../../mouthful/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He took a big mouthful of cake.[↗](../../mouthful/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Just have one mouthful of broccoli.[↗](../../mouthful/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Her full name is a real mouthful.[↗](../../mouthful/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · «Meteorological» is a bit of a mouthful.[↗](../../mouthful/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The old man gave the boys a mouthful for kicking the ball into his garden.[↗](../../mouthful/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I swallowed a mouthful of sea water.[↗](../../mouthful/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Take small mouthfuls so you don't choke.[↗](../../mouthful/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · ‘Oh! what a mouthful of great white teeth you have, Grandmother!’[↗](../../mouthful/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **mouthpart** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Mouthparts are the parts around an insect's or other small animal's mouth that it uses to bite, suck or chew food.[↗](../../mouthpart/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A butterfly's mouthpart is like a long straw.[↗](../../mouthpart/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mosquitoes have sharp mouthparts for piercing skin.[↗](../../mouthpart/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ants use their mouthparts to carry food.[↗](../../mouthpart/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists study insect mouthparts under a microscope.[↗](../../mouthpart/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A grasshopper has strong chewing mouthparts.[↗](../../mouthpart/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bee uses its mouthparts to drink nectar.[↗](../../mouthpart/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **mouthpiece** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The part of a musical instrument, phone or other device that you put to or near your mouth.[↗](../../mouthpiece/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A soft guard worn in the mouth to protect the teeth in sports (also «mouthguard»).[↗](../../mouthpiece/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A person who speaks for someone else.[↗](../../mouthpiece/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Blow gently into the mouthpiece of the recorder.[↗](../../mouthpiece/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Clean the mouthpiece of your trumpet after practice.[↗](../../mouthpiece/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Rugby players wear a mouthpiece to protect their teeth.[↗](../../mouthpiece/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Speak into the mouthpiece of the old telephone.[↗](../../mouthpiece/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The snorkel has a rubber mouthpiece.[↗](../../mouthpiece/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't share your mouthpiece with others.[↗](../../mouthpiece/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · They have requested me, Madam, to be their mouthpiece."[↗](../../mouthpiece/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **mouthwash** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Mouthwash is a liquid you rinse around your mouth to clean it and make your breath fresh.[↗](../../mouthwash/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") You spit it out; you do not swallow it.[↗](../../mouthwash/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Rinse with mouthwash after brushing.[↗](../../mouthwash/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Spit out the mouthwash; don't swallow it.[↗](../../mouthwash/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The mouthwash tasted of mint.[↗](../../mouthwash/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The dentist gave me a fluoride mouthwash.[↗](../../mouthwash/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Mouthwash does not replace brushing your teeth.[↗](../../mouthwash/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep mouthwash away from little children.[↗](../../mouthwash/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **mouton** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (French) «Mouton» is the French word for sheep, and also for mutton (sheep meat); to an English ear it sounds like «moo-TON» with a nasal end.[↗](../../mouton/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In English, mouton is sheepskin that has been treated to look like beaver or seal fur, used for coats.[↗](../../mouton/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* (French) «Un mouton» means «a sheep».[↗](../../mouton/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · (French) «Les moutons sont dans le champ»: the sheep are in the field.[↗](../../mouton/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The English word «mutton» comes from French «mouton».[↗](../../mouton/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma's old coat has a mouton collar.[↗](../../mouton/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · (French) Le Petit Prince asks the pilot to draw him a mouton.[↗](../../mouton/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In French class we counted moutons.[↗](../../mouton/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · (French) «Revenons à nos moutons» means «let's get back to the subject».[↗](../../mouton/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A mouton is just a sheep, not a special animal.[↗](../../mouton/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **movable** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Able to be moved from one place to another; not fixed.[↗](../../movable/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Of a holiday or festival: falling on a different date each year, like Easter.[↗](../../movable/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The desks in our classroom are movable.[↗](../../movable/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The puppet has movable arms and legs.[↗](../../movable/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Your elbow is a movable joint.[↗](../../movable/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Gutenberg printed books with movable type.[↗](../../movable/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Easter is a movable holiday.[↗](../../movable/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bridge has a movable part that lifts for ships.[↗](../../movable/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Make a card with a movable picture using a split pin.[↗](../../movable/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Then the young couple returned by means of the movable stone, and brought up all the glass vessels filled with smoke.[↗](../../movable/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **move** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To move is to go from one place to another, or to change position.[↗](../../move/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To move something is to carry or push it to another place.[↗](../../move/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To move house is to go and live in a new home.[↗](../../move/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A move is a turn or step in a game, or an action: «a smart move».[↗](../../move/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To move someone is to make them feel strong feelings, like being sad or touched.[↗](../../move/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He moves 5 chairs to the other room.[↗](../../move/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The ant moves 3 cm each minute.[↗](../../move/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · They moved 12 boxes into the truck.[↗](../../move/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the game she made 4 moves.[↗](../../move/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Please don't move while I take the photo.[↗](../../move/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A push or a pull can make a ball move.[↗](../../move/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We are moving to Toronto next summer.[↗](../../move/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · It's your move, so roll the dice.[↗](../../move/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Even the leaves had ceased to move.[↗](../../move/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.[↗](../../move/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.23.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../move/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And the spirit of the LORD began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.[↗](../../move/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.13.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../move/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.[↗](../../move/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.10.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../move/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it.[↗](../../move/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.28.28, JPS 1917)[↗](../../move/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **moved** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Moved is the past form of move: it already went or was carried somewhere else.[↗](../../moved/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Moved also means you went to live in a new home.[↗](../../moved/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* If you are moved, a story or music made you feel strong feelings.[↗](../../moved/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She moved 8 books to the top shelf.[↗](../../moved/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · 5 students moved to another class.[↗](../../moved/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The family moved to a new house.[↗](../../moved/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He moved 3 cars from the first row.[↗](../../moved/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The rock moved when we pushed it hard.[↗](../../moved/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa was moved by the song and smiled.[↗](../../moved/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Our neighbours moved away last year.[↗](../../moved/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher moved Sam's desk near the window.[↗](../../moved/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · At length the father badger moved away.[↗](../../moved/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.[↗](../../moved/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.13.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../moved/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.[↗](../../moved/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.13.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../moved/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth, and every man; (Torah GEN.7.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../moved/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · He that doeth these things shall never be moved.[↗](../../moved/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.15.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../moved/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.[↗](../../moved/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 1CH.21.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../moved/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · Now I had said in my security: 'I shall never be moved.'[↗](../../moved/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.30.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../moved/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/) … [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/page/46/) **47** [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/page/48/) … 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