rove

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  1. intransitive verb To wander about at random, especially over a wide area; roam.
  2. transitive verb To roam or wander around, over, or through. See Synonyms at wander.
  3. noun An act of wandering about, over, around, or through.
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  • I have no wish to see Karl rove, other then in a prison jumpsuit. —  MetaFilter Projects
  • And the nymphs of the grove in their loneliness rove, but the columbine blooms just the same. chorus —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • BearCountry Says: bachus, et al are probably certifiably insane, and they seem to be supported by others who are insane or deliberately causing turmoil (rove). —  Think Progress
  • We know by now that bush / cheney / rove was nothing more than a criminal enterprise disguised as government. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Obama should win unless - harold ickes was right - karl rove is acting very peculiar. —  Top Stories - Google News
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English roven, to shoot arrows at a mark.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. A back formation, from rover, a robber, used generally in the sense of ‘a wandering robber,’ and hence taken as simply ‘a wanderer.’ The Icelandic rāfa, rove, stray about, is not related.
  2. from rove, v.
  3. Perhaps an irreg. variant of reeve (from reef), due to confusion with the preterit rove, or of rive, due to the former preterit rove: see reeve, rive. Some take rove to be a form of roll through Scots row. Others refer to ruff = Dutch ruif, a fold.
  4. Cf. rove, v.
  5. A reduced form of arroba.
 

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