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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

sich fortbewegen

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zich fort-be-vegen

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Locomote/ˈloʊ.kəˌmoʊt/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Alle Lebewesen müssen sich fortbewegen, um zu überleben."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To move from one place to another, especially by one's own power or means of locomotion.

    "The newly designed robotic rover can smoothly locomote across rugged extraterrestrial terrain."
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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived by back-formation from locomotion, which stems from the Latin words 'locus' (place) and 'motio' (motion). It entered English usage in the early 19th century as a technical and scientific term describing self-generated movement from one location to another.

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