commove

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Bark Control: Helping You Get Some Public Security and Tranquil It is role of your province as a dog proprietor to make sure that your domestic dog does not commove your neighbors with his barking.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to move with force or violence; agitate; disturb.
  2. transitive verb To rouse strong feelings in; excite.

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  • Bark Control: Helping You Get Some Public Security and Tranquil It is role of your province as a dog proprietor to make sure that your domestic dog does not commove your neighbors with his barking. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Which, sire, is matier that must nedes commove and stire the hartes of al good christen princes and people to helpe and put their handes with effecte to reformacion thereof, and the repressing of such tirannous demenour. " —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
  • Satan is called the prince of the air, and the god of this world, for he hath more efficacy and virtue to commove the air, and raise tempests than all the swarms of multiplied mankind, though gathered into one army. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • "It might commove Europe and bespatter it with blood, but that would not hinder it from plunging itself into nothingness in the abysmal ooze of definite dissolution." —  The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
 

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  1. Middle English commeven, from Old French commovoir, commeuv-, from Latin commovēre; see commotion.

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  1. from Middle English commoeven, commeven = Old French commuver, French commouvoir = Spanish conmover = Portuguese commover = Italian commuovere, commovere, from Latin commovere, move, displace, agitate, disturb, from com-, together, + movere, move: see move.
 

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